Should a Country Speak a Single Language?

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Should a Country Speak a Single Language?

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Linguistics@mander.xyz · 3 months ago

In India, one of the world’s most polyglot countries, the government wants more than a billion people to embrace Hindi. One scholar thinks that would be a loss.

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Try one of the Language Transfer courses. They are lizard friendly.
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