What are some countries where their official language is being slowly replaced by another language? (loan, rated)
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Are there any countries where the official language(s) is slowly being replaced by another, fast-spreading growing language? If so, what are these countries?
I'll start with Northern Iraq, where Kurdish is tardily replacing Arabic. I do hear that English is becoming very common in Netherlands, where most Dutch speakers are preferring it over their native language. But I don't know if this is true.
Are there any countries where the official language(s) is slowly being replaced by another, fast-spreading growing language? If so, what are these countries?
I'll start with Northern Iraq, where Kurdish is tardily replacing Arabic. I do hear that English is becoming very common in Netherlands, where most Dutch speakers are preferring it over their native language. But I don't know if this is true.
I doubt most Dutch speakers prefer speaking to each other in English, especially young Dutch people speaking to their parents and grandparents. Yet of course Dutch people prefer speaking English to foreigners.
What about Sweden and Norway? I've heard a significant proportion of the population of these countries can speak English.
A significant amount of people in most of Western European countries (and increasingly Eastern Europe) is able to converse in English fluently, but people don't necessarily use it in every-day life.
Spain and France, there were hundreds of languages before Romans. The US, there were hundreds of languages before pilgrims, etc.
The fact that people speak English does not mean AT ALL that they will speak English to autoctonous people, quite preposterous. You are describing the situation of the US 60 years ago, when people lost their language and culture in favour of a poor standard.
I do hear that English is becoming very common in Netherlands, where most Dutch speakers are preferring it over their native language. But I don't know if this is true.
I doubt that someone will speak a foreign language in the daily life, unless in a situation of imperialism or colonialism. But in this case, it doesn't sound absurd since Dutch and English are closely related.
What about Sweden and Norway? I've heard a significant proportion of the population of these countries can speak English.
No. English loan words and certain phrases have infiltrated those languages since a long time ago, but the native languages aren't in any way in the process of being owerthrown. People are generally proud of their languages.
What about Sweden and Norway? I've heard a significant proportion of the population of these countries can speak English.
We all learn english from about third grade and are flooded by american pop culture. Some of us use english words in place of swedish words, but rarely whole sentences and never in a whole conversation.
In Spanish people is use more and more English loanwords for no reason, because uncultured bydlos. Althought this happens mostly in urban, professional circles.
There are many indigenous languages in the Americas which are dying because of many reasons. This is a list of Colombian indigenous languages which are endangered on different levels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...es_in_Colombia
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