What happens when your language is not official in Spain

What happens when your language is not official in Spain
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by paniniconqueso

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  1. No hay razón para que el valenciano sea oficial en la Comunidad Valenciana, pero no el asturiano y el gallego en Asturias. Lo absurdo de la situación se hace evidente porque el gallego ya es oficial en la vecina comunidad de Galicia. Si el gallego en Asturias no es digno de ser oficializado, el gallego en Galicia tampoco debería serlo. Un galegofalante que vive en Asturias no tiene derechos lingüísticos, o tiene muy pocos. Cruza la frontera que separa Galicia de Asturias, y de repente los tiene.

  2. El asturiano parece castellano hablado por un borracho

  3. I am Asturian and I hope that Asturian never becomes coofficial

    In the city where that man is sitting, Oviedo, the second language you most often hear after Spanish is French, followed by English and German from tourists and Moroccan Arabic and Romanian from some inmigrants

    In a very, VERY distant place is Asturian, and as an inhabitant of this city, I don’t hear it almost ever

    This is not just in Oviedo, Asturias has a very tiny, not to say non-existent, Asturian only speaking population, while the amount of Asturian speakers who use it daily (even if they know Spanish) is also very low

    Making it official would require a language exam to become a doctor like this guy advocates for, and for all goverment jobs to do the same

    That would make our region, which is losing population, even less attractive to live in, and for what, a language barely anyone speaks?

    There are, I guarantee you, more people who can’t communicate well in Spanish because their native language is Arabic than because it is Asturian, should we make Arabic a cooficial language?

    It would be ok to have one person, an special job dedicated to these extreme anomalies, bur to require this on public sector jobs would kill Asturias

    Also, all the effort, in schools all the time kids would spend learning the language for what? It is dying anyway, they won’t need it in their life

    They will need French, English, Chinese, Arabic, not Asturian, a language that each passing year has less and less native speakers

    So no, as an Asturian, PLEASE don’t make the Asturian language official

    Invest more heavily on English and French in schools, all the effort you would put into Asturian

    Sincerely, a concerned Asturian who wants its community to rebound demographically and attract population to revive its cities and economy

  4. El idioma que está hablando este señor no existe y se le nota, es una amalgama de cientos de dialectos diferentes que nunca han tenido un hilo común y una evolución adecuada como lengua conjunta. Es una pena, puede ser, pero absolutamente nadie habla de forma natural el “asturiano” que “usa” este señor.

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