#regional languages

There are 84 recognised languages native to the European Union, but only 24 of them are official. Most of the time, the speakers of indigenous, minority or “regional” languages are discriminated against and have the state’s official language imposed in their everyday life.

Reposting from EFA Youth’s Instagram account:

On International Mother Language Day we reiterate our demand for the right to live, learn, work and communicate in our own languages. 

We’ve set out 4 steps for the European youth to improve linguistic diversity on our continent.

1️⃣ To demand the right to live, to work and to communicate in our own languages.

2️⃣ To fight for the right to learn our own languages and to be taught in them. Education is key to a language’s survival.

3️⃣Insist on public services being delivered in our own languages for the benefit of all.

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This is you speaking after they agreed to come with you, right? If so, I'd go for a literal translation like "Fantastico, andiamo!" or "Grande, andiamo!".

Idk if these days there's a great usage of the milanese language in our everyday life tbh, I think it's very much more used its "accent" (also as a joke/stereotype), or as we call it "la gorga": the accent that makes you sound like a good "baüscia"! -jk, milanesi friends :P (as a reference for this way of speaking, think about Renato Pozzetto or Diego Abatantuono -who took up the gorga very well).

Anyway, you can find some songs on youtube that are typical of Milano and Lombardia (here and here, a couple of collections. Memo Remigi is a famous singer who used to sing, at times with Ornella Vanoni, in milanese. Nanni Svampa and Jannacci, Cochi e Renato, they're all other good samples of the milanese culture in music and theatre), or you can check infos on wikipedia especially the phonetics part (check also the lingua lombarda page you find linked and the literature one too as it may help). I would also suggest to rely on @urluch-in-dla-nebia as they're all lumbaard and use their language a lot in their posts + share a lot about Lombardia's culture and traditions too. I also reblogged something from them here and there, you can search for #lumbard on my blog if you're interested or just check their blog.

Lombardia is a pretty wide regione in Italy so if you want to know more about all the dialects/variations of the lumbard minority language, keep in mind that there can be differences with milanese if you move to another provincia (eg. Cremona, Brescia, Pavia...) or just take a few steps away from it. TBH, this is true in each regione here, also the smallest one: every comune has its own variation of the regional language, no matter how close or far they are from a bigger city. It depends on the bigger language influence they had to endure during occupations in the medieval era or before/after it.

What we need to do:

Stop calling our native languages regional languages. Many of these languages that the Indian government considers 'regional' are spoken or/and are official in countries outside India, thus making them 'international' (Bengali, Tamil, Punjabi etc)

Hindi is a 'regional' language too. It's from the Hindi belt. The Hindi belt is a region. Hindi is regional.

Boycott the term 'Hindustani'. It's misleading. We Bengalis, prior to national movement and even during the national movement, never called ourselves Hindustani. It was a term reserved for the North Indian (Hindi speaking) people. Even writers like Tagore and Sarat Chandra used the term that way, did they not consider themselves Indian?

We are Indians, Bharatiya (Bharotiyo), not Hindustani. Hind is not Hindustan. Bharat is not Hindustan. We don't need to love Hindi to be Indian. What's the point of independence and democracy if I need to lose my culture and language to another, just to call myself Indian. Wake up people... It's high time.

This is historic. For the first time in the V République, a law concerning regional languages was voted. This means:

That for the first time, regional languages are recognized as part of the linguistic patrimony of France

Thus, it is now impossible to oppose initiatives promoting regional languages considering they are a 'threat to the French language', for example in court.

Regional languages now have their place on public buildings, road signs and in institutional communication.

Diacritics are now allowed in civil status documents

It is now possible to learn how to write and read in regional languages at public schools. This is the end of one century during which all regional languages were banned at Republican schools.

On one hand, I do forgive the fact that neither Ethan Hawke nor Miriam Nyarko knew how to speak Chinese, since their intonations were off and I had to rewind a few times to fully get what they were saying. It does help somehow, that when Steven asks Harrow about him speaking Chinese, Harrow replies that yeah, it’s useful to learn more than one language. While I did not expect the Chinese language to be used in this episode, I had first thought that if those few lines were to be spoken, there should’ve been a speech/dialect coach on set to help with intonations and what not. But then after a while, I thought, perhaps the reason why their intonations were off was because of the in-universe reason of I’m-still-learning rather than the behind the scenes reason of we’re lazy about this. At least they got the sentences right, so I can’t gripe about that.

I was convinced that when Harrow first started speaking in Chinese, he spoke what I thought was Shanghainese (a Chinese dialect of which I understand a few words), and I got confused. He then proceeded to speak in Mandarin.

I put on the following subtitles

And here is what I got for each one. It helps that I’ve also provided an English translation down below.

On the other hand, all it says in the English subtitles is (speaking Mandarin) and I’m like ???

Either way, this could hold quite a bit of information. A background character, Jamila, who despite being a likely cult member of whatever Harrow is doing is unlikely to pop up again, has literally stated point blank to him that he will lose. “You will still lose,” she told him. With a sinister laugh, Harrow replies, “You’re dead [or done for], Jamila, you’re dead.”