tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5689847788659113407.post5716537638320367782..comments2022-04-08T02:23:47.610+02:00Comments on Xarlatà : Translation: A standardised language is the soul of a countryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5689847788659113407.post-48976924286028334172014-03-16T01:39:55.060+01:002014-03-16T01:39:55.060+01:00To be honest, I never came across anybody talking ...To be honest, I never came across anybody talking about this issue while I was there, I think most people think it's not at all a priority at the moment. I'm planning to translate some more articles on the subject, hopefully giving some different and varied opinions.<br />I should read up more on this topic in general (language and identity), do you have any recommendations? I think I might re-read that Catalan book you gave me too.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10264782749790020234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5689847788659113407.post-76235119902416087822014-03-15T10:33:58.656+01:002014-03-15T10:33:58.656+01:00Very interesting stuff. It's cool to see the d...Very interesting stuff. It's cool to see the debate on Kurdish language planning firsthand.<br /><br />I'm with you on his viewpoint being flawed and dangerous. Of all the authoritarian, centralist garbage, this sentence takes the cake:<br /><br />"Without this they would be just like all those hundreds of tribes and groups al over the world, like those in Africa or the Amazon rainforest where the people can understand each other in their different languages, but are linguistically backwards and cannot be compared with Arab, English and Chinese speaking nations."<br /><br />And this view doesn't get debunked often enough:<br /><br />"but a people with two standard languages become two nations."<br /><br />If we consider a 'nation' to be a primarily political community, then Norway and Switzerland both stand as refutations of this idea.<br /><br /><br />What is the dominant tendency in southern Kurdistan, as far as you can tell? Do people tend to think like the author of this article, are they in favour of maintaining two standards, are there people in favour of a composite standard...?Saim Dusan Inayatullahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13874144364622952069noreply@blogger.com