Re: What to Call Non-Conlangers

Tristan McLeay wrote:
> On 5 Mar 2005, at 3.52 pm, Ph. D. wrote:
>
>> Damian Yerrick wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Think of the former policies toward Native American languages
>>> in the United States, where speaking Injun in school was a
>>> punishable offense.
>
>
> [Sally points out similar happenings in Wales]
>
>> Not limited to the United States. Australian authorities in the
>> nineteenth century had the same policy toward indigenous
>> languages.
>
>
> And France at various stages, I believe. And Turkey with Kurdish.
> Though not with English, of course.
Well, there was Irish...

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