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by enriquto 923 days ago
> from Mexico to Patagonia, and from The Canaries up to the Pyrenees.

Sounds a bit imperialistic?

Notwithstanding the tens of millions of native speakers of autochtone non-spanish languages in these territories: Mapuche (260K), Quechua (7.2M), Aymara (1.7M), Guaraní (6.1M), Wayuu (400K), Mayan (6M), Miskito (150K), Garifuna (120K), Nahuatl (1.7M), Mixtec (530K), Catalan (4.1M), Basque (750K), Galician (2.4M). Spanish is quickly eroding all of these, but they still exist! (And this only counts native speakers. The number of people who are fluent in Guarani or Catalan is certainly more than the double of that.)
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anthk 922 days ago
Not imperialistic. Would you say the same of the English language too? BTW, On Basque, euskaraz primeran mintza naiteke.
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enriquto 921 days ago
> Not imperialistic. Would you say the same of the English language too?

Yes, of course? When I think of imperialism the first thing that comes to my mind is precisely "the bri'ish empi'ah and its commonwealth"! If English is currently the world's default language is just because of the triumph of English/American imperialism.

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