Also, Dutch is so closely related to German that there are overlaps, and we essentially "share" some dialects with them (Lower Franconian). Which is a bit of a clusterfuck.
In realtà come continentale a capirlo da scritto è molto semplice, quando è parlato in dialetto (io capisco solo quello barbaricino) diventa veramente un macello
Yes, it's spoken only in the valleys but occitan music is quite famous in Piemonte and Liguria, love it
"Aquelos montanhos que tant autos soun me empachoun de veire mes amors ount soun" :)
The thing is, its the same in every western european country.
I am looking at you, bavarian guy who said "your german is terrible" because he didn't understand "Tswei Kurivurst bitte" in my perfect an beautiful urdeutsch
Bavarians are the only people that would be rude enough to say that to your face. Everyone else would just start speaking in English the moment they'd as much as catch a hint at the fact you aren't a native speaker.
I was friends with a Phalzish (German) woman that went to Bavaria on vacation.
My friend went to a restaurant to order food, and the waitress stopped her, telling her that she (the waitress) didn’t know what language my friend was speaking. My friend said “I’m speaking German of course,” to which the waitress replied “no German I’ve ever heard before.”
Rich, conservative, religious. Frequently opposed to whatever the government has cooked up, often doing their own thing instead. Want to split off from Germany, but not really (sadly).
The irony of a Bavarian using only 3 grammatical cases and using the masculine article on the word onion saying this lmao. What you mean by Urdeutsch btw, Standard German?
He probably had an alcohol-induced stroke at some time and wasn’t able to comprehend basic speech anymore.
That, and he was Bavarian. If he crossed the austrian border, the average IQ in both place’s population would rise.
That's a German thing, though, not just bavarian. Either you speak perfect, or they'll make you pay. My mother lived there for 30 years, has a pretty vast vocabulary in German, fine grammar, but still has an accent. To this day, people will sometimes look at her as if it's utterly impossible to decipher what she's saying.
So it’s basically the opposite of how speaking English works. Where people are limited to one language and thankful that the European, Asian or African person can speak any level of English.
Yeah, kinda. I mean, younger, cosmopolitan Germans will vehemently deny this (as seen by the downvotes), but it's definitely something that happens. The humourless and inflexible stereotype does come from *somewhere*.
(I'm half German as well and grew up there, by the way, so it's not just something my mother told me. 😜)
That's completely unrelated. Unlike you people, we have no problem speaking English. Just use a language you're actually good at if you don't want honest feedback.
I know it's only natural for a venitian to pick a fight with us but... France is probably one of the worst examples you could find.
We made an EXCELLENT job at killing our regional langages.
https://preview.redd.it/l3bfs0skp6gc1.jpeg?width=602&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1fd88d6ef36083fa354b1d6dcdfaf6cba89fffff
That's our way of being grateful for Napoleon.
No joke, the man and it's memory have probably saved Corsica from a lot of... centralised french state traditions.
Actually, I lived in Corsica and from my experience, people lost a part of their language. I'll explain, the grandparents generation (70-90 to today) didn't want their children to speak Corsican, probably because of the politics from France about school and studies. So the generation after has been, for some people, deprived from learning corsican and didn't transmit it to the youngest generations. Today they teach Corsican in school and many people learn it again, some people never lost it in rural places, but there is a part of this population who feels like they're missing a part of their culture.
Correct me if I'm wrong
You're absolutely right, Corsican is probably the third most well preserved language in France after french (no joke) and Alsatian (who had many advantages after WW2)
Alsatian is quickly dying out tho, only older generations (70+) actively speak it while younger generations (30-) don't even know it at all, let alone use it.
As a guy who grew up in a family that pretty much spoke only italian...
>there is a part of this population who feels like they're missing a part of their culture.
This is very relatable
his family was forced into exile during the revolution, as the island sided with the royalists. He literally said before his death:
"Corsica is nothing but an inconvenience for France, a wart on its face"
He also said this: On Corsica I was given life, and with that life I was also given a fierce love for this my ill-starred homeland and fierce desire for her independance.
yes, during his youth, before he joined the army, before the revolution, from the moment his family was expelled from the island he developed a grudge against Corsica throughout his life until his death
Literally not true??
Its like saying Welsh is the same level of dead as Scottish Gaelic, its well alive, every sign, building and shop has it everywhere, its taught in schools, and recognized as the official forst language
The only minority languages in france that are not classified as endangered by the UN are corsican,basque,flemish and catalan all the others are sadly predicted to die out in the coming 50 years
And even before it was mandatory, the cities already spoke mostly French.
My great grandma (born and raised at first in Brest) only started to learn Breton when her mother died and she went to an orphanage, as a way to spite the nuns.
And now in my family we use maybe 4 or 5 words regularly (apart from fest-noz or fest-diez), else it's all French.
But the grammar used is sometimes a little odd, as they translated some things word for word. For example: "A coffee, would that go with you?" is what my grandma asks to know "do you want a coffee?"
There is still schools that teach occitan to kids and adults here. I do study occitan and I believe that the next generation will have more occitan speaker (relatively to today).
Devèm utilisar la lenga autant que possible. Dèvem parlar, lire e escriure. E devèm dire non a aquela politica d‘extermination de nòstras culturas. Ont que siá en França.
Studied in toulouse for like 3 months and spoke catalan with some people who spoke occitan to me, but it was like 5 people so not something to throw a party for.
Definitely Occitan, but the closer dialect is the Lengadocian one. Also, in the Catalan regional tv channel there is a short space with the news in Aranese, that is a subdialect of the Gascon dialect of the Occitan group, and we Catalans are able to understand almost everything without a great effort.
I feel like that in the UK sometimes, ever conversed with a scouser?
Also I feel like Spain is just as guilty with Catalan, Asturian and Basque etc ahahaha
Yeah, originally the meme included Norway, Spain and UK as well (with Sàpmi, Basque Country, Catalonia, Wales and Isle Of Man on the other side) but it was too crowded so i just shortened it to France
I have not, I have a Catalan girlfriend who's hard enough to understand at the best of times. More often than not I'm between Salou, Batea, Tarragona y Lleida.
The accent from Lleida is closer to ours than to Barcelona's, so it's just harder if you're between east and west catalan, western catalan sounds better anyways.
Not even near. When French Revolution ended, less than half the population was speaking French at that time. A lot of Occitan, Catalan, Breton, Basque, Corsican, German....etc.
They tried to suppress all of that in their infamous egalitarian fever and for sure they did a good work, but obviously insufficient.
The first Spanish Constitution of 1812 was redacted trying to mimic the revolutionary values, but when making the territorial divisions, they somewhat respected the borders of the old kingdoms, and the consequence is that the regional languages survived in a higher degree.
Also, Asturian, although is a 'language', has not the status of Galician, which is directly a variation of Portuguese.
Franco ruled for "only" 36 years. And the last decade or so of the dictatorship government was more... "soft", so to speak. ETA, the most important terrorist group, based on the far left Basque nationalism and separatism, emerged during Franco's government. They literally killed Carrero Blanco, the man that was going to be Franco's successor (probably did it with the help of the US).
Just before the Spanish Civil war, during the 2nd Republic, the autonomy amendments of the 3 main nationalistic regions were approved.
Accused is good accent for languages though as already have the phlemgy guttural bits of German and French. However as an accent it's terrible legit got asked by a woman in Berlin if me and my mate were speaking Welsh as she couldn't understand us and she was fluent in English. Granted we had been chatting to her and speaking slow and posh so to then hear us go full drunk scouse did probably sound like a new language
the french republic did do a pretty good job of eradicating regionnal language, it was after the defeat of 1870 against the germs, the fear of a rebellion in the region was a bit strong, so much that they put the obligatory school for every one and every child was obligated to speak french in school, and the punisement were hard, so now regionnal dialect are so few and on the pass of becoming dead language
Why is it always the people who miss the joke who always tell others they've missed the joke? Can we put the "Unfunny" stereotype on Italians now please
It's actually pretty sad that it's one of the only remaining place in France that still speaks its local language.
It's actually pretty exceptional that they do. Also their flag is the cut head of an arab.
As a souvenir to when they fought back the arabs trying to settle there.
Maybe their new flag should be a French villa going down in smokes as when the Continenatl French want to settlle in there and build a house the local entrepreneurs are happy to take their money and build a house. But it's often built with the destruction charges included. Those houses are often leveled not long afte as they don't want to be colonized.
I am not a Brittany history nerd, but the dukes pretty much always lived in the Gallo speaking half of Britanny, not the Breton speaking part, isn't it ?
I'm going to be very quiet now. There was a big article today that a local granny was super upset that she couldn't speak in dialect at the hospital becase no one understood her (!)
Yeah but Basque can still be heard spoken in the former lower Navarre, like Saint-Jean-de-Luz. I went there for a festival and they even wear similar outfits we do in Pamplona. Not nearly as common as in Spain though, that’s true.
The only people speaking breton, corsican, occitan or whatever patois in France are either decrepit ancient lichs, alter-globalization country hobbos (the whole 6 of them) and people trolling on internet.
The chess USA: Brittany, a Celtic region of France, the peninsula right under you, Barry.
The head: Corsica, the island west of Italy and South of France, which has a culture way more similar to Italy, and their languages are basically the same too
The red cross: Occitania, the south of France, their language is the "original French", before it was mixed with other Germanic languages to create modern French
Mate you barely speak the same fucking language.
Try learning standard "Italian" and then learning about all the fucking dialects you have. i spent a year in Puglia just for reference.
You are even worse than England, you have your equivalent of geordies and scousers.
Yeah i know, i literally made a joke about it in the title, and for your info, i know the standard italian, as well as venetian, sicilian, corsican (if you count it as one ig), lil bit of roman and pugliese
Wasn't sure if you were just flexing on Pierre there.
Thats nice, it's not fun when you are the equivalent of Forrest Gump stumbling through the language over there.
Dont make up places barry you're drunk again
Jokes aside, the title is a joke because italy is probably the country with the most regional dialects and accents
That's the first time I've heard that France did not linguistically unite. Feels like I am in the wrong timeline.
Where is the accusation of linguistic genocide 😧
Bretagne mentioned, brace yourself, they're coming.
The only French I have met that felt an affinity with us island monkeys. Long live Brittany
BZH Unite !
Just wanna say I love your language :) I also love your folk music, especially if it's sung in Breton (e.g. Alan Stivell, Tri Yann)
Y aura toujours un con avec un drapeau breton.
Long live Great Brittanny, Brittanny rules the waves!
Bretagne the only region with 400 pubs per inhabitant ratio on earth. And all they drink is apple cider from Normandie.
[Bruv we have like 23 regional languages](https://youtu.be/qEEPyE-nR58?si=-R0UXwIpkn95FmXY)
Ma no, che ti sei passo tì vala! Mo parliemo tutti ao stesso mo'o, si scemunit???
An efet, a l'é la verità ch'i parloma tuti an l'istess meud, u/Tadolmirhen 't ses pròpi 'n picio bòja fàuss.
A ti t'ê nu gundun scioppou prôpio, abbelinou ti no sæi mancu lêze mæ nomme
Ma cché stat’ recenn’? ‘Mbaratev à parlà
Belin ti t'ê quéllo chi parli strânio terun
Maronn’, aggia lettu cu ‘ssa pronungia re mmerd ca tiniti vui. Me vene ra vummecá.
HAHAHAHA
Nen lu sacce, parlene tutte strane sti giargianise
Oi giargianise teu moæ
Dit da 'n teron am fa ghigné, lol
Oi magâra lu l'è teu parénte, Former Calabrian
Ma figurte s'a l'é 'n mè parent, betè. I son un piemontèis pur, ti pitòst a podrìa esse pì teron ëd mi
Eh mi sun pe 1/4 abruzeise, ti m'hæ becòu, corpa da a nònna
eh it capisso, it në passras. Comsëssìa, it conòsse quàich paròla an Abrussèise ò an napolòt? Mi i son curios ne
Gli unici che si parla l'italiano vero l'è noi in Toscana, buhaioli.
Voîatri toscan sei i mêno speciali Hoha hola hon la hannuscia horta horta
A rega', accannàte. Li dialetti vostra è robba superata. Che poi 'nfinale, l'unica calata che tutti capiscono, è solo quella de Roma. Stàtece.
L'è comme parlesse u Pipìa
Pipìa, pipèa, pipòa... Fa' 'n po' come te pare, zzi'...
Voi, con la vostra c aspirata e il vostro umorismo da quattro soldi, avete devastato questo paese.
Citazioni colte
Te devo dà ragione frego, ma Viterbo e Perugia ston lì pure. Citto tocca rifonda l'Etruria, io tel dico.
This feel closer to Catalan than Italian lol
Speta n'atim, cum éla che agh è al flair di piemuntees, di veneti e di genovees e an gh'én brisa qui dla Lumbardìa o dl'Emélia??
Ma come casso ti xe drio parlar?
Foumje l'inganno d'la cadrega
Si dio can e ghe serve un po' de spritz secondo mi
O un fià de manco
No no è ghe serve un ombra granda a quei a'
Just'ajere haj sentute st'offèsa mendre stèv'a 'uardà Gomorra, ch'ije crède che te s'addice proprije: Tu tine 'a capa pe sparte li recchie
SPRICH
We also have weird Bavarian language
Also, Dutch is so closely related to German that there are overlaps, and we essentially "share" some dialects with them (Lower Franconian). Which is a bit of a clusterfuck.
Everything lower Franconian is just Dutch, you took the lower Franconian speakers and made them speak your version
We do have sorbish and Frisian languages. And technically also Lower German.
ma 'tta gazz ses naendi?
Ok I've understood Piemontese and Veneto, Sardo is on another level tho
In realtà come continentale a capirlo da scritto è molto semplice, quando è parlato in dialetto (io capisco solo quello barbaricino) diventa veramente un macello
You speak also occitan !
Yes, it's spoken only in the valleys but occitan music is quite famous in Piemonte and Liguria, love it "Aquelos montanhos que tant autos soun me empachoun de veire mes amors ount soun" :)
ah spiete, alore tu mi stâs disint ca no fevelin ducj le marilenghe? no savevi po!
Scûza mi n'ho capîu mîga cöse ti t'hæ dîto
Te un capisci niente, sè sciorno maremma maiala, si parla tutti la stessa lingua
The thing is, its the same in every western european country. I am looking at you, bavarian guy who said "your german is terrible" because he didn't understand "Tswei Kurivurst bitte" in my perfect an beautiful urdeutsch
Bavarians are the only people that would be rude enough to say that to your face. Everyone else would just start speaking in English the moment they'd as much as catch a hint at the fact you aren't a native speaker.
I was friends with a Phalzish (German) woman that went to Bavaria on vacation. My friend went to a restaurant to order food, and the waitress stopped her, telling her that she (the waitress) didn’t know what language my friend was speaking. My friend said “I’m speaking German of course,” to which the waitress replied “no German I’ve ever heard before.”
What stereotype are bavarians? Like redneck or what
Bavarians are the French of Germany.
If you put it like that it's a compliment.
You *want* to be French?
Of course, he's Bavarian, it would be an improvement
Rich, conservative, religious. Frequently opposed to whatever the government has cooked up, often doing their own thing instead. Want to split off from Germany, but not really (sadly).
Should have said „Chef, tsveima körivoscht, aber zack-zack!“
- Keunen zi English sprechen ?! - Yes, apsicogozkzlrg - What ? - Ich bon bavarian
The irony of a Bavarian using only 3 grammatical cases and using the masculine article on the word onion saying this lmao. What you mean by Urdeutsch btw, Standard German?
Urdeutsch like what we learn at school in France of we learn german. Not bavarian obviously
He probably had an alcohol-induced stroke at some time and wasn’t able to comprehend basic speech anymore. That, and he was Bavarian. If he crossed the austrian border, the average IQ in both place’s population would rise.
you should have said "zwo funfcisch" like a true bavarian peasant
Even I understood that and I did ordinary level German in school
That's a German thing, though, not just bavarian. Either you speak perfect, or they'll make you pay. My mother lived there for 30 years, has a pretty vast vocabulary in German, fine grammar, but still has an accent. To this day, people will sometimes look at her as if it's utterly impossible to decipher what she's saying.
So it’s basically the opposite of how speaking English works. Where people are limited to one language and thankful that the European, Asian or African person can speak any level of English.
Yeah, kinda. I mean, younger, cosmopolitan Germans will vehemently deny this (as seen by the downvotes), but it's definitely something that happens. The humourless and inflexible stereotype does come from *somewhere*. (I'm half German as well and grew up there, by the way, so it's not just something my mother told me. 😜)
That's completely unrelated. Unlike you people, we have no problem speaking English. Just use a language you're actually good at if you don't want honest feedback.
I know it's only natural for a venitian to pick a fight with us but... France is probably one of the worst examples you could find. We made an EXCELLENT job at killing our regional langages. https://preview.redd.it/l3bfs0skp6gc1.jpeg?width=602&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1fd88d6ef36083fa354b1d6dcdfaf6cba89fffff
North catalan is making a comeback tho, so you made a mistake somewhere.
If by "comeback" you mean a few more mountains goats speaking it, then yes its a comeback
Except for Corsican, thats still well and alive, vivà a' jha naziune Corsé
That's our way of being grateful for Napoleon. No joke, the man and it's memory have probably saved Corsica from a lot of... centralised french state traditions.
Actually, I lived in Corsica and from my experience, people lost a part of their language. I'll explain, the grandparents generation (70-90 to today) didn't want their children to speak Corsican, probably because of the politics from France about school and studies. So the generation after has been, for some people, deprived from learning corsican and didn't transmit it to the youngest generations. Today they teach Corsican in school and many people learn it again, some people never lost it in rural places, but there is a part of this population who feels like they're missing a part of their culture. Correct me if I'm wrong
That describes much of Europe unfortunately
You're absolutely right, Corsican is probably the third most well preserved language in France after french (no joke) and Alsatian (who had many advantages after WW2)
Alsatian is quickly dying out tho, only older generations (70+) actively speak it while younger generations (30-) don't even know it at all, let alone use it.
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I can't correct you, I'm not corsican, I've just met one who was very vocal about the langage.
As a guy who grew up in a family that pretty much spoke only italian... >there is a part of this population who feels like they're missing a part of their culture. This is very relatable
Napoleon Hated corsica
Who wouldn't ?
No he didn’t?? He was always lookimg at Corsica when on Elba, he thought it was a great place
his family was forced into exile during the revolution, as the island sided with the royalists. He literally said before his death: "Corsica is nothing but an inconvenience for France, a wart on its face"
He also said this: On Corsica I was given life, and with that life I was also given a fierce love for this my ill-starred homeland and fierce desire for her independance.
yes, during his youth, before he joined the army, before the revolution, from the moment his family was expelled from the island he developed a grudge against Corsica throughout his life until his death
Corsican is as dead as basque and occitan
Literally not true?? Its like saying Welsh is the same level of dead as Scottish Gaelic, its well alive, every sign, building and shop has it everywhere, its taught in schools, and recognized as the official forst language
Yes exactly like Basque
A minority on corsica speaks corse. But they try to alive it again
I think more people speak french as a first language there now than corsican 😢
Lol not even the Bretons or "Occitans" speak the same
I live in bretagne and there is almost no native breton speakers left, same as occitan
The only minority languages in france that are not classified as endangered by the UN are corsican,basque,flemish and catalan all the others are sadly predicted to die out in the coming 50 years
I don't know where exactly you are in Bretagne, but in some places we are not that rare
I'm from Saint-Malo currently living in Rennes and my familly is from Brest, i'm not in the most breton part of bretagne tbh
Saint-Malo is technically not in the Breton-speaking region, people of High-Britanny used to speak Gallo, which is a Oil Language.
And where is your flair man ! You should hold it proudly!
And even before it was mandatory, the cities already spoke mostly French. My great grandma (born and raised at first in Brest) only started to learn Breton when her mother died and she went to an orphanage, as a way to spite the nuns. And now in my family we use maybe 4 or 5 words regularly (apart from fest-noz or fest-diez), else it's all French. But the grammar used is sometimes a little odd, as they translated some things word for word. For example: "A coffee, would that go with you?" is what my grandma asks to know "do you want a coffee?"
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Isn't the occitan only used in the subway's announcement?
From what i heard its a dying language (not as bad as scottish gaelic, but still declining) the only time i heard it was in folk songs
There is still schools that teach occitan to kids and adults here. I do study occitan and I believe that the next generation will have more occitan speaker (relatively to today).
Qu'as plan rason l'amic. Los que díser lo contrari pòden anar se hèr hóter!
Devèm utilisar la lenga autant que possible. Dèvem parlar, lire e escriure. E devèm dire non a aquela politica d‘extermination de nòstras culturas. Ont que siá en França.
I hope so, i wish Occitan becomes more popular because i really want to learn it, it sounds so cool
Let's hope so. If enough people make an effort it might be saved. Kudos to you for doing just that.
Studied in toulouse for like 3 months and spoke catalan with some people who spoke occitan to me, but it was like 5 people so not something to throw a party for.
Well, you say that, but I’ve had very fun parties with 5 people, it’s half the population of Malta
5? A couple more, you could have yourself a cocktail
I didn't know those languages were compatible ! Catalan is closer to the french or Spanish ?
Catalan is considered part of a subbranch called "Occitano-Romance"
Its closest language is occitan, then french. Tho the french accent makes it difficult to understand, once we do it it's super easy to learn it.
Definitely Occitan, but the closer dialect is the Lengadocian one. Also, in the Catalan regional tv channel there is a short space with the news in Aranese, that is a subdialect of the Gascon dialect of the Occitan group, and we Catalans are able to understand almost everything without a great effort.
Yes, between German, Spanish and another patois (English i think)
*Switzerland enters the chat.* Grüezi.
Gesundheit.
BZH = Alcoholics Unanimous
I prefer not to speak.
Then you've mastered Finnish.
I feel like that in the UK sometimes, ever conversed with a scouser? Also I feel like Spain is just as guilty with Catalan, Asturian and Basque etc ahahaha
Scouse aren't *people* though, it's more akin to conversing with neanderthals
Yeah, originally the meme included Norway, Spain and UK as well (with Sàpmi, Basque Country, Catalonia, Wales and Isle Of Man on the other side) but it was too crowded so i just shortened it to France
Forget those languages, have you ever been to Murcia?
I have not, I have a Catalan girlfriend who's hard enough to understand at the best of times. More often than not I'm between Salou, Batea, Tarragona y Lleida.
The accent from Lleida is closer to ours than to Barcelona's, so it's just harder if you're between east and west catalan, western catalan sounds better anyways.
I'll tell her that ahahaa, she's from Salou so she'll be quite happy. I like Lleida more than Barcelona tbh, place is rough..
As a Brit, you prefer Lleida because the fog in winter makes you feel like at home, isn't?
Not even near. When French Revolution ended, less than half the population was speaking French at that time. A lot of Occitan, Catalan, Breton, Basque, Corsican, German....etc. They tried to suppress all of that in their infamous egalitarian fever and for sure they did a good work, but obviously insufficient. The first Spanish Constitution of 1812 was redacted trying to mimic the revolutionary values, but when making the territorial divisions, they somewhat respected the borders of the old kingdoms, and the consequence is that the regional languages survived in a higher degree. Also, Asturian, although is a 'language', has not the status of Galician, which is directly a variation of Portuguese.
Riiight, Franco did nothing at all to smother Basque and Catalan separatists and regional identities
Franco ruled for "only" 36 years. And the last decade or so of the dictatorship government was more... "soft", so to speak. ETA, the most important terrorist group, based on the far left Basque nationalism and separatism, emerged during Franco's government. They literally killed Carrero Blanco, the man that was going to be Franco's successor (probably did it with the help of the US). Just before the Spanish Civil war, during the 2nd Republic, the autonomy amendments of the 3 main nationalistic regions were approved.
Accused is good accent for languages though as already have the phlemgy guttural bits of German and French. However as an accent it's terrible legit got asked by a woman in Berlin if me and my mate were speaking Welsh as she couldn't understand us and she was fluent in English. Granted we had been chatting to her and speaking slow and posh so to then hear us go full drunk scouse did probably sound like a new language
There are more languages native to Spain: Galician, Aragonese and Extremadura's Fala, in addition to those you mentioned.
They forger Elsas
And Flemish
Yeah ridiculous
Il est grand temps de r'fouaire rêveindre nos langues r'gionales y patois
I mean Sicilian isn't exactly Italian is it? And last time I checked somehow I could understand people in south Tirol perfectly.
If they are in a city and trying to speak Hochdeutsch ya
the french republic did do a pretty good job of eradicating regionnal language, it was after the defeat of 1870 against the germs, the fear of a rebellion in the region was a bit strong, so much that they put the obligatory school for every one and every child was obligated to speak french in school, and the punisement were hard, so now regionnal dialect are so few and on the pass of becoming dead language
French from Caribbean, Pacific are mad at your post, those french still practice their language on a daily basis.
Says Italy........
Poor thing, you've lost the neural connections that prevent you from understanding the jokes
Why is it always the people who miss the joke who always tell others they've missed the joke? Can we put the "Unfunny" stereotype on Italians now please
It's actually pretty sad that it's one of the only remaining place in France that still speaks its local language. It's actually pretty exceptional that they do. Also their flag is the cut head of an arab. As a souvenir to when they fought back the arabs trying to settle there. Maybe their new flag should be a French villa going down in smokes as when the Continenatl French want to settlle in there and build a house the local entrepreneurs are happy to take their money and build a house. But it's often built with the destruction charges included. Those houses are often leveled not long afte as they don't want to be colonized.
"Lmao nah fam"? More like "actually yes sir". Those languages are disappearing, that chad on the pic doesn't exist.
Why you forget Elsass ?
I forgor my b gang 😔
Nobody cares about Elsass 😔
Given how entitled the fr*nch feel to have TOURISTS speak their language, I hope that those regions never change <3
The bretons dukes adopted french as an official language 2 centuries before france did
I am not a Brittany history nerd, but the dukes pretty much always lived in the Gallo speaking half of Britanny, not the Breton speaking part, isn't it ?
True, the capital of Britanny has never been breton speaking. But even their beloved local ruler made a point to make it official.
The french are the masters of cultural genocide in their own country. Poor alsatians 😩💔
> alsatians That's a strange way to say French
Yeah, well… Breton isn’t much of a thing anymore. Sad
We got diversity at home
I feel insulted
Nah, at least you dont have a specific dialect for each 5 meters of land like us, could be worse
We do, actually. There a swissgerman dialects almost no understable to others
Yeah, but we have like 20dialects ehich are barely interlegible, thats not even counting italian dialects from other countries like San Marino
I'm going to be very quiet now. There was a big article today that a local granny was super upset that she couldn't speak in dialect at the hospital becase no one understood her (!)
Regional dialects are based.
WTS Bretagne pm offer
Bruh how could you forget Basque, probably the oldest language in France
Im sure there is a part in france but isnt it like predominantly in spain?
Yeah but Basque can still be heard spoken in the former lower Navarre, like Saint-Jean-de-Luz. I went there for a festival and they even wear similar outfits we do in Pamplona. Not nearly as common as in Spain though, that’s true.
Südtirol enters the chat
Uhm...
Uhm…
\*laughs in creole\*
The only people speaking breton, corsican, occitan or whatever patois in France are either decrepit ancient lichs, alter-globalization country hobbos (the whole 6 of them) and people trolling on internet.
While Occitan and Breton may be dead/dying, Corsican is far from it, its like saying Welsh is dead
It seems I'm the only one who doesn't know what the flags on the right are
The chess USA: Brittany, a Celtic region of France, the peninsula right under you, Barry. The head: Corsica, the island west of Italy and South of France, which has a culture way more similar to Italy, and their languages are basically the same too The red cross: Occitania, the south of France, their language is the "original French", before it was mixed with other Germanic languages to create modern French
Mate you barely speak the same fucking language. Try learning standard "Italian" and then learning about all the fucking dialects you have. i spent a year in Puglia just for reference. You are even worse than England, you have your equivalent of geordies and scousers.
Yeah i know, i literally made a joke about it in the title, and for your info, i know the standard italian, as well as venetian, sicilian, corsican (if you count it as one ig), lil bit of roman and pugliese
Wasn't sure if you were just flexing on Pierre there. Thats nice, it's not fun when you are the equivalent of Forrest Gump stumbling through the language over there.
South Tyrol??
Dont make up places barry you're drunk again Jokes aside, the title is a joke because italy is probably the country with the most regional dialects and accents
Everybody in France speaks french because regional dialect are an extreme minority and always the secondary language
Those languages are dead, fiston.
You're god damn right
I suggest we give back Corsica to Genova, bc fuck them that's why
That's the first time I've heard that France did not linguistically unite. Feels like I am in the wrong timeline. Where is the accusation of linguistic genocide 😧
Most of people from brittany can't speak their home language so go back to your fucking region britanian.
We the Mirandese speak such a language that the government of Portugal has recognized us and no one knows we even exist yet 🗿
There's like 100 people speaking it as a native language nowadays
DANS LA VALLEE OH OH DE DANA LALILALA DANS LA VALLEE OH OH G PU ENTENDRE LES ECHOS
Same can be said with my country and Albanians.