hrvclv
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- Auvergne, France
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- Arvern
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The small or small minority languages that have the opportunity act the same or worse than the big ones, and use their minority languages in their territories as a weapon of segregation, xenophobia and discrimination, and if they have not yet done so, it is because they have not had the opportunity, the opportune conditions to carry it out, but they would end up doing it as I said at the least opportunity they had.
???????? Not sure I understand what you mean. African Americans speak English, yet they get shot dead at the drop of a hat. On the other hand, some minorities cultivate their languages as a way of marking their refusal to get integrated into the mainstream community. Some small communities also stick to their language to resist what they perceive as cultural imperialism. It has to do with heritage and identity, not necessarily with xenophobia.
Anyway, the use of dialects in Italy or southern France can hardly be suspected of segregative intentions. Most speakers of such dialects also speak/spoke the national official language perfectly well (local accent excepted) and keep the dialect for neighbors. I very much doubt my grandmother ever intended to segregate anyone when she spoke dialect to the guy across the street. She quite naturally spoke French to everyone else, including me. Just like I use English on the forum and speak French to my wife.
I deplore the extinction of dialects because they were distinct "linguistic objects" - artefacts, if you wish, which testified to a culture, just like Cardium pottery does. Not because they locked us in, or others out.