Yes, but an identity multiplicity can lead to disunity in a state.
What's the frequency Kenneth?|In case of war.Disney Fairies. I love it. I expected some kinda cheap saccharine-laden swill, but it's actually really good. Between it and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, I have hope for entertainment aimed at girls yet.
Fantastic Weapon Generator!Because there are people in the world with a strong cultural identity who will want to do that.
Hebrew is a successful example. When in diaspora, the Jews preserved classical Hebrew in their scriptures, and when Israel was reborn in the Middle East, they revived Hebrew and made it their national language. About 5 million people speak Hebrew as their first language now.
Cornish is an example in the works. There are bilingual programs and schools in Cornwall devoted to teaching the next generation Cornish alongside English. About 2000 people are fluent right now, and if enthusiasm continues, the future generations will even become native speakers.
People in Scotland and Ireland respectfully are trying to preserve Scots Gaelic and Irish respectively, though those languages haven't really died.
Take, for example, Aynu itak. Aynu died in the 90's, I believe, with its last speaker. However, the Ainu people still live there with a strong cultural identity, and in the future they may wish to revive it. They are probably trying to revive it right now.
Ah, yes, Hawaiian is another example of a reviving language and culture. I believe that the language and culture of a people are bond together by blood, so if you destroy one, you hurt the other. Languages are built around the daily lives of the people who speak them, so the culture of the people are deeply encoded within the language. I believe that in order to properly study and fully understand a culture, you have to also familiarize yourself with its language and its corpus of songs and tales.
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Banned entirely for telling FE that he was being rude and not contributing to the discussion. I shall watch down from the goon heavens.You know who did multilingualism? Austria-Hungary.
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The Quantum Thief is the best book I've read since John Dies At The End, and it makes me feel like a genius, in no small part because it uses all sorts of fancy words like boson or words borrowed entirely from other languages like gevulot or tzaddik and all sorts of fucked-up physics and theory and whatnot... and my brain hasn't exploded.
Language revival is a bit hit-and-miss. I like the Welsh language, and that's one that never actually died, but some people (in regions where it did die out) really aren't happy about having it imposed on them.
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