Minorities at language

This entry talks about a theme which the year before we treated in class. First we talked about the conflicts between the Spanish and Catalan languages like officials in the Spanish province of the Comunidad Valenciana. Later in an English class we read a text about a similar conflict in the U.S.A. I try to explain it to you in this manner.

In the majority of countries there is a minority that speaks a language that isn't the official language of the country. For example, in Spain there are at list three regional languages: Valencian, Basque and Galician. But the past national governments have tried to eradicate this languages.

In the U.S.A. there are a lot of tribes, each one with their own language. The one spoken by the Navajo Indians is particularly complex, and the authorities wanted everyone to speak English, so they punished the indians that spoke their own language at school. I think that they wanted to integrate them in an English speaking culture; however I think that this is not the best manner to do it.

In my opinion this policy is wrong because the Indians could learn English and at the same time speak their own language. I think that it is in their interest to speak the official language of the country, because their lives would be very limited in U.S.A. without speaking English.

To sum up I think that all languages disserve respect and when on of the uncountable languages in the world disappear it is lost for ever.

I am a defender of the languages that are speaking in the minority sectors. I don't want that any of them became to disappear. But this is impossible without the collaboration of the governments and the people. The collaboration of the governments is necessary because if they forbid any minority language in the end it disappears; and people have to try to preserve the magic essence of the languages that are used during the intelligent human life.