GEOG 2337 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Endangered Language, Secularism
9 Feb 2020
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Breton: celtic based language, home to french province of brittany, 1 million speakers in 1950, 200,000 in 2017, endangered language. Linguistic standardization: french language championed as the language of reason and enlightenment, regional languages seen as vulgar barriers to progress. Linguistic standardization achieved through education, religion, punishment, repression, and economic assimilation. Revival: teaching of breton permitted in 1951, teaching in breton however was not permitted, students revolution (1968) greater appreciation of regional languages, and upsurge in early. Fears of the state: feared loss of nation state identity through, multiple competing languages, multiple competing geographies, multiple ethnicities, erosion in centralized administration.
