Minority language academic
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Unfortunately, having millions of speakers is not necessarily a defence against the social and political forces of minoritisation and colonisation. Even large groups can succumb to these processes if they do not rally their political resources to protect themselves
Jun 11
Aquí un sociolingüista irlandès que fa anys que ho explica, en contra de les tesis mainstream de l'acadèmia.
El poder del català no és ni ha estat mai comparable al de l'irlandès. Ara bé, això no ens fa immunes a les dinàmiques sociolingüístiques en contextos de minorització
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A reasonable question from @astridbierge
Jun 10
Les polítiques lingüístiques han de canviar d'objectiu.
Hem de deixar de preguntar-nos què hauríem de fer perquè els altres aprenguin català i hem de començar a pensar què cal fer perquè nosaltres puguem viure en català.
Divendres penjarem l'acte sencer.
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Our thanks to the staff of @UniLeipzig for the kind welcome to conference on Sociolinguistics of vernaculars 110 years after the Easter Rising the opportunity to talk on Irish and the vernacular crisis in European minority languages #Gaeilge #Gàidhlig #GaelicCrisis @ThinkUHI
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Conchúr Ó Giollagáin retweeted
"... From Craigard the compilation moves quickly on through the Uist and Barra Children’s parliament and Roddy Red Tie’s croft to Am Pàipear’s feature story on the renowned Norman Maclean..."
With plenty more to follow!
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Gràcies, Frederic
Mar 31
Lectura recomanada sobre el gaèlic. Lliçons pel català
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"A common cultural feature of the current Irish and the historical British rule is found in indifference about the societal viability of Irish." Full text below for Irish Times article 13.3.26: bit.ly/47zIQ50 #Gaeilge #Gaeltacht #GaelicCrisis #Gaelic @ThinkUHI #MinLang
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"The State’s perspective on the Irish language and its speakers has become indistinguishable from that of British colonial rule" Our thanks to @IrishTimes for publishing our Op-Ed today #Gaeilge #Gaeltacht #Gaelic #GaelicCrisis #Colonialism @ThinkUHI bit.ly/4b7FOan
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Grateful for having our perspective included in this important publication #Gaeilge #Gàidhlig #GaelicCrisis
Feb 24
D'obligada lectura. Brillant volum. Amb magnífics articles, entrevistes. Passat, present i futur del català @RevistaCat @fredericjporta @natxosorolla #JordiMartíMonllau #LluísDuran @CerniEscale @juliaojedacaba @bernatmallen #AntoniodiPaolo @ConchurOG @margapayola @abel_riu Fil 👇🏼
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9 Dec 2025
Official approaches often prioritise minority-language civic promotion while ignoring the social demise of minority vernacular, native-speaking communities. Under current circumstances, this will degenerate into language promotion as minority vernacular communities disappear.
9 Dec 2025
Al núm. 331 de la @RevistaCat, #LaLlenguaEnJoc @ConchurOG acaba el seu article així: "Si tenim la voluntat de mantenir la diversitat lingüística al planeta, el destí de les comunitats gaèliques s'hauria d'estudiar amb detall." Tenim aquesta voluntat?
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5 Dec 2025
"Practicing or performing Irish in schools, institutions and in ceremonial and aesthetic contexts, is now sufficient from the State’s perspective to give an illusion of life to Irish." from @RevistaCat #Catalan article in La llengua en joc: “L’ensorrament social del món gaèlic:
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5 Dec 2025
Well done to all the contributors!
5 Dec 2025
Mil gràcies a tots els que vau venir ahir a @OnaLlibres per escoltar-nos a la @juliaojedacaba, en @bernatmallen i a mi parlar del nou número de la @RevistaCat "La llengua en joc". Sala plena de gom a gom d'amics, col·laboradors i interessats en aquest nou començament.
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5 Dec 2025
Gràcies de nou @RevistaCat! As many aspects of the evasive official and academic thinking contributing to the societal collapse of #Gaelic communities prevail in other European minority-language contexts, it is only a matter of time before they face a similar sociolinguistic fate
5 Dec 2025
Mercès per ser-hi! La situació del gaèlic és un avís per la nostra llengua. Trobareu l'article d'en Conchúr a "La llengua en joc"
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4 Dec 2025
My thanks to Revista de Catalunya editors for including me in this special edition «La llengua en joc» on the minority language crisis: “L’ensorrament social del món gaèlic: una lliçó per a les minories lingüístiques” bit.ly/3MF8XQc Moltes gràcies @RevistaCat
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13 Nov 2025
Is demolinguistic size sufficient to protect against minority-language endangerment? Looking forward to hearing #Catalan perspectives on the social dynamics of our #LanDS framework for Ethnolinguistic Vitality bit.ly/47BEoDe #MinLang
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12 Nov 2025
Looking forward to our discussions tomorrow in Barcelona
11 Nov 2025
▶️Aquest dijous no us perdeu aquesta conferencia del @ConchurOG i coorganitza da per @InfoLinguapax @SOCS_IEC i el CUSC a l’#IEC: cruscat.iec.cat/agenda/rethi…
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10 Nov 2025
I am grateful to @InfoLinguapax, @SOCS_IEC @CuscUB for the opportunity to present our new framework for sustaining Ethnolinguistic Vitality bit.ly/4qQo0Gx #català #Gaeilge #Gàidhlig #Cymraeg #Euskara #MinLang #GaelicCrisis #Ethnolinguistics #Sociolinguistics
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30 Oct 2025
It was a great speech from @ConchurOG talking through all of our concerns with the cuts at @ThinkUHI 👏👏👏
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21 Oct 2025
Eskerrik asko, @ArantxaIraolaA "O Giollagainen arabera, hizkuntza politiketan ikuspegi «postestrukturalista» bat gailendu da sarri; «neoliberalismoaren» irizpideetan ditu horrek zimenduak, eta komunitateek berez dituzten beharrizanak ahantzi egin dira" bit.ly/47gIoaF
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20 Oct 2025
Eskerrik asko! Thanks for the kind welcome in #Azpeitia, #Basque Country for #Arnasguneak2025 conference to examine the sociolinguistic crisis in Europe's minority-language vernacular communities. Link below to our #LanDS paper, as requested by attendees: bit.ly/3Twqmef
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