Re: What to Call Non-Conlangers

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.
>
>
>
> Not limited to the United States. Australian authorities in the
> nineteenth century had the same policy toward indigenous
> languages.
>
> --Ph. D.
And so had Sweden against Saami.  The Saami children were
all rounded up at Swedish-language bording schools.

The Finnish population of northern Swedish suffered
a similar fate.  No bording schools but Swedish-only
schools.

The 18th century Dano-Norwegian playwright Holberg
observed about his upper lower upper-class family
that "The parents spoke German, and the governess
spoke French, and at school they spoke Latin.  Danish
the boy had to learn in the street."  And the irony of
it is that what he called Danish was actually Norwegian,
as he grew up in Bergen.


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