#languageloss — Public Fediverse posts
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#LanguageLoss as experienced by a person who never properly acquired her #HeritageLanguage, plus expert comments, busting the myths about #multilingualism, and making an important point: #MinorityLanguages are often not treated as languages but as ethnic attributes. When laypeople (also decision-makers) speak about "languages", "[I]t's often not about the languages at all – but about social attitudes, especially to immigration."
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230608-what-happens-when-you-cant-speak-your-parents-native-language