Miíyu miíyu. It is Speak Your Language day. However, thanks to Colonization and “extermination” and other genocide methods, I only speak a few words of what should have been my first language.
When we think about languages it is important to know of and support the ones that Colonial Imperialism has done its best to eradicate.
This includes not mocking them as silly,
not saying they sound like nonsense,
not joking about their spelling, the look of their alphabet,
not joking about how they sound
as “making no sense” to you just because you speak a Majority language. You are not more comprehensible or correct than their words are just because you can’t understand them.
That is Colonizer rhetoric.
Respecting a language actual people speak is part of not being bigoted.
Yes, this includes languages spoken by “white” people, like Irish, Scots Gaelic and Scots dialect, Breton, Welsh, Cornish, and so on.
These few words you see me use are Chamteéla, one of the languages formerly common in what is now called California, USA.
Noó$un Loóviq
All of this
And also, please, if a minority language is really close to a dominant language, don’t dismiss it as an “improper/incorrect” version of that language
Scots isn’t “improper English”
Occitan isn’t “improper French”
Corsican isn’t “improper Italian”
Frisian isn’t “improper Dutch”
and so on
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