Language

Where can I go to learn more about dialects without learning too much Italian (did a few years back in middle school, only the basics)

Welcome to Switzerland

Catalan hopefully

Frisian is going extinct.

Every Celtic language is growing in some way. Welsh and Scottish Gaelic are the only ones declining in adult speakers, though they're both growing in terms of child speakers.

doesnt feel good lads

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaghan_language

Only one speaker left, and she's 90 by now.

Lombardfag here. In the same region we even have a lot of different dialects. Like Milan dialect is different from Bergamo dialect. That said Is not that much of dialect but more accent and slag that real dialect. We use some words but nothing more. That said here in north Italy we despise south italian accent, dialect and culture and viceversa. Seriously.
>South niggers
>North Aryans

Estonian, Moldavian, balts and also this

All of those languages have their own country where they are the sole official language. I don't see them dying anytime soon unless Russia goes full imperial and no one stops them.

And unless they stop migrating, and unless they stop learning other languages like english, german or russian, and unless they start breeding and un less they stop being irrelevant.

They need a lot

t. sassanach
Except in Ireland we have rates high enough for the language to survive, especially in irish-only areas. Furthermore, most young irish people and speak Irish to a semi-fluent level
Not to mention Wales is the country with the highest proportion of Celtic speaking citizens out of all Celtic nations

literally hundreds

assyrian
half of the assyrians in iraq have fled in recent years. most of them will probably become westernized and never return

英语

Il Mario sounds low class, at least in Spanish.

Wrong
walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/caribbean-doctor-learnt-speak-welsh-12492920

We wuz Welsh n shiet

Variants of Low Dutch more likely will, Frysian might persist

>all those dialects, even languages in their own right mandatory education eliminated in places like france

Language standardization is fucking cancer.

That's not stopping you from aggressively genociding the last Slovenes though, eh?

This proves Italians are still savages that live divided into tribes. You think your dumb regional shit is relevant in this world?
There's cities in this world with population far larger than any of your regional "identiy".

>Estonian, Baltic languages
lmao

>Moldavian
not a language

>useless and obscure dialects disappearing
>having a strong united culture
>bad things

What is wrong with localism?

City states ought to be the future

>localism
That doesn't necessarily mean linguistic fragmentation. Linguistic unity is also better for the economy of a land. No need for translators and wasting valuable money on education in obscure dialects. Businesses can run better without this barrier. Workers and investors can adapt faster to a new location.

>City states ought to be the future
Why? They were more of a curiosity in history.
Huge continental empires, pardon, "federations", are the future. Small regional identities will be meaningless
The only hope is for smaller entities to ally themselves and resist being completely assimilated by the larger empires.

There used to be a continuum of dialects which might make trade easier

Hopefully arabic will be the first big one to fall.

go hiontach

>Why? They were more of a curiosity in history.
Notice the "ought"? It's because city states don't have the centralized military power of nations or federal states and are less of a humanitarian threat.

but thats impossible you retarded /pol/baby

Is it possible for any of the big ones to fall?

More logical they morph into something else

Think vulgar Latin and the Romance languages

Literally hundreds, maybe thousands will. You just haven't heard of them.

That would only work if large nations didn't exist at all and all the entire world is made of these city-states.
Even if most of them would be peaceful, all it takes is for one of them to be more powerful and in need of something that the neighboring cities have but don't share, and that would start the whole thing all over again.

Romansch?

I'm Welsh and you're dead wrong

Manx maybe, the others, no

German

All Western European languages will degenerate into a blade-runner esque esperato fused with Arabic.

>esperato
wonder how that will be doing by the 22nd century

Do you think it will be more or less widely spoken, Veeky Forums?

Arabic and Chinese.

T. retards

Who /polish/ here? I need to practice speaking polish. Does anyone want to?
If anyone willing, leave some throwaway email or something.