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Should we rescue endangered languages?
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RE: Should we rescue endangered languages?
In my country libya, standard arabic is the official language. It is nobody's mother tongue, our first tongue are the dialects (except the berbers). It's a dead language and they try to make us speak it (libyan dialects aren't considered real, because they're not a written language and they say they lack grammatical rules, which obviously isn't true).
A contributing factor is the fact that the quran was written in classical arabic. One time someone I know said that berber shouldn't be official in their areas because it's not Allah's language.

I mean libyan arabic is easier, it doesn't have case endings, only three yous (the standard has five)... etc.

Anyway how did Europe abandon Latin, and adopted the vernacular?

How do you learn to spell irish (the pronunciation isn't that hard though, check libyan arabic)?

Ps. How good is my English?
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Should we rescue endangered languages? - by Angrboda - August 9, 2014 at 3:36 pm
RE: Should we rescue endangered languages? - by Diablo - August 9, 2014 at 3:38 pm
RE: Should we rescue endangered languages? - by Violet - August 9, 2014 at 3:49 pm
RE: Should we rescue endangered languages? - by Napoléon - August 9, 2014 at 3:50 pm
RE: Should we rescue endangered languages? - by Diablo - August 9, 2014 at 5:32 pm
RE: Should we rescue endangered languages? - by vorlon13 - August 9, 2014 at 5:29 pm
RE: Should we rescue endangered languages? - by Jenny A - August 10, 2014 at 1:00 pm
RE: Should we rescue endangered languages? - by Jenny A - August 10, 2014 at 1:23 pm
RE: Should we rescue endangered languages? - by Dystopia - August 9, 2014 at 5:34 pm
RE: Should we rescue endangered languages? - by Diablo - August 9, 2014 at 5:39 pm
RE: Should we rescue endangered languages? - by Dystopia - August 9, 2014 at 5:42 pm
RE: Should we rescue endangered languages? - by Diablo - August 9, 2014 at 5:57 pm
RE: Should we rescue endangered languages? - by Dystopia - August 9, 2014 at 6:13 pm
RE: Should we rescue endangered languages? - by Polaris - August 9, 2014 at 6:18 pm
RE: Should we rescue endangered languages? - by Cato - September 5, 2014 at 7:44 am
RE: Should we rescue endangered languages? - by Darth - September 6, 2014 at 6:09 am
RE: Should we rescue endangered languages? - by Cato - September 6, 2014 at 8:09 am
RE: Should we rescue endangered languages? - by Darth - August 10, 2014 at 8:44 am
RE: Should we rescue endangered languages? - by c172 - August 10, 2014 at 10:10 am
RE: Should we rescue endangered languages? - by c172 - August 10, 2014 at 12:29 pm
RE: Should we rescue endangered languages? - by Tobie - August 10, 2014 at 1:33 pm
RE: Should we rescue endangered languages? - by Diablo - August 10, 2014 at 1:34 pm
RE: Should we rescue endangered languages? - by c172 - August 10, 2014 at 1:18 pm
RE: Should we rescue endangered languages? - by Tobie - August 10, 2014 at 1:28 pm
RE: Should we rescue endangered languages? - by c172 - August 10, 2014 at 1:32 pm
RE: Should we rescue endangered languages? - by Polaris - August 10, 2014 at 3:53 pm
RE: Should we rescue endangered languages? - by Diablo - August 10, 2014 at 3:58 pm
RE: Should we rescue endangered languages? - by DramaQueen - August 14, 2014 at 8:12 am
RE: Should we rescue endangered languages? - by Tobie - August 14, 2014 at 12:30 pm
RE: Should we rescue endangered languages? - by naimless - September 5, 2014 at 5:06 am

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