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.
Up in Catalunya (Barcelona) the dialect is very french-spanish influenced, (but don’t let anyone from there catch you saying it, lol) and Valenciano is a little less so.
We French never took our regional languages back, although some areas are still fighting for theirs. So much culture lost.
Up in Catalunya (Barcelona) the dialect is very french-spanish influenced, (but don’t let anyone from there catch you saying it, lol) and Valenciano is a little less so.