Also just gonna point out here:
In the UK, the languages Gaelige, Gaelic, Cymraeg and Kernewek (thatās Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Cornish respectively) didnāt justĀ ādie out.ā There was a concerted effort by the English to kill them off.Ā
For example, in Wales, if a child was heard speaking Welsh in a classroom, theyād be given a āWelsh Notā, a wooden plaque engraved withĀ āWNā to hang around their neck. Theyād pass it onto the next child heard speaking Welsh, and whoever had the Welsh Not at the end of the day was punished - usually with a beating.Ā
Kernewek was revived after a long hard struggle by the Cornish folk, and is now being taught again, but a lot about it has been lost because everyone who grew up speaking it has died.
And languages are never revived ājust because.ā The language of a place can offer so much insight into its history, so if youāre content to let a language die then youāre content to let history die.
People talk aboutĀ ādeadā languages as if they dwindle away gradually, naturally coming to an end and evolving into something else, but thatās rarely the case. Languages like Cymraeg and Gaelige and especially Kernewek didnāt have the chance to die with dignity, they were literally beaten out of my parents and grandparents.Ā
Is it any wonder every other country hate the English? We invade their country, steal their history, claim pieces of their history as ours or flat out re-write it, and kill every part of their culture that we can.Ā
Itās a miracle that any of the Celtic languages survived, so even if you donāt see the point in keeping them alive, the actual natives of each country weāve fucked over are clinging onto what heritage they have left through the only thing they can: their language.Ā
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