Why France and UK succeeded to eradicate most of their regional languages but Spain didn't ?

Why France and UK succeeded to eradicate most of their regional languages but Spain didn't ?

France and the UK existed as centralized entities for much longer than Spain did
Also France had a big revolution and whatnot

Spain let its peoples have autonomy while frogs actively worked on extuingishing everything non-French

UK didn't succeed. Northerners are impossible to understand.

Spanish people didn't have as many external threats as the French did in the 1800s when the mass assimilation took place. France was worried that Germany or even England would encourage and support separatists to divide the country.

The English assimilation was more voluntary, started sooner, and lasted longer. By the time Scotland joined the union most of the southerners were already speaking English. This is probably because England has a more dynamic economy than France with more internal trade and movement of people.

Well the UK actually punished the speaking and writing of Gaelic with death for a period so.

Too many intern problems, starting with having the government (and the church) against nationalism during the rule of Fernando VII and later on the lack of stability and money to foment it

And in this case Frenchies did right.

Strong attachment to local "fueros" and the relative success of the Carlists prevented the kind of cultural genocide Jacobins wanted in Spain from happening.

It's funny how leftists claim to love diversity while loving the country that did the most to destroy all diversity within it's own borders.

>leftists
>loving France
???

people still speak celtic languages in the British Isles.

>France and UK succeeded to eradicate most of their regional languages
but they didn't

Op didn't say that they killed ALL of their regional languages

France is the greatest nation on earth

*they haven't yet

Most French regional languages will probably be ded in 100 years

why does France hate Federalism?

Because they don't have a severe genocidal streak.

france is shit

Because Federalism creates independentism

This. Look at Spain.

Fuck off Nigel

>tfw Aquitaine will never be free

these feelings must be why people create alt-history settings

go home Richard you're ded

Cost-benefits of adopting national languages.

because france and england were developed countries by the 1700eds with centralised goverments and so on and industrialised nations by 1800eds with large urban industrialised centres and a dynamic capitalist system that got everione to get with the programme or starve to death, with france especialy making a longterm consolidated effort to turn everyone french, from simple things like political and cultural hegemony, forcing education in the official language, imposing national identity on minority populations all the way to simple oppression and genocide, and england doing similar stuff in their own ways, like how most of ireland still speaks english

a lot of this started way way back, with things like the crusades against cathars or all the shit henry tudor did to catholics and cromwell did to everione

realy in england it was mostly down to influence of urban and political centres, which were anglo doinated obviously, and most of the population being piss poor and illiterate for most of english history, as well as lots of wars and terror and ruthless exploatation

in france it was a whole project, lasted centuries, costed countless lives, still isnt over

its how you impose control and hegemony, make sure generation after generation of kids learn the same shit in the smae shitty official language by the same state official aproved schoolteacher under the same fucking flag blessed and endorsed by the same shitty religion

spain on the other hand was a third world country till the mid 20th century, so it was full of isolated subpopulations with their own languages and dialects, same as italy or any part of the balkans, even tho spain too had its bright moments of strong centralised goverment, inquisition, forced conversion and purges, as well as being founded on the reconquista

france even exported this deal to other parts of europe, like how germany exists as a homogenous country today is in part due to napoleon forcing them to adopt things like standardised measurments, as in metric, consolidate their language, set up communication systems like post offices, teach all kids in all schools the same shit in the same grammar, that sort of thing

I spend too much time in """"""French"""""" Canada and this is very true. Pathological hatred of any deviation from the Platonic ideal of French. Also, never get an apartment on the 2+ floor because see this nigga you will die in the winter.

Literally French Man's Burden

>muh centralization
>muh revolution
>muh secularism
>muh charming communist intellectuals
>muh May 68

Basically, everything is their fault.

>what's La Commune

>when you stretch history this far to fit your narratives