{"id":9267,"date":"2013-10-11T17:27:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T17:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=9267"},"modified":"2013-10-11T17:27:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T17:27:04","slug":"attitudes-of-minority-languages-speakers-to-learners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=9267","title":{"rendered":"Attitudes of minority languages speakers to learners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine posted an interesting question on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/184956218294377\/?hc_location=stream\">Regional, Minority &#038; Indigenous Languages group<\/a> on Facebook:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHas anyone ever experienced rejection or hostility from a minority group for learning their language?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This generated a lot of discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes when I speak Welsh to people in shops in Bangor they will reply in English. I don&#8217;t know why they do this, but it is a but frustrating. That is the only negative experiences I&#8217;ve had with speakers of the minority languages I speak or am learning (Welsh, Breton, Irish, Manx, Scottish Gaelic and Manx). <\/p>\n<p>I have only met a few young Breton speakers, and they were happy to talk to me in Breton, but I understand that many older native speakers of Breton are not willing to talk to learners, partly because they find them difficult to understand as they speak a standardised form of Breton with lots of neologisms.<\/p>\n<p>If you are studying or have learnt any minority\/endangered languages, have you had any problems with being accepted by their speech communities?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine posted an interesting question on Regional, Minority &#038; Indigenous Languages group on Facebook: \u201cHas anyone ever experienced rejection or hostility from a minority group for learning their language?\u201d This generated a lot of discussion. Sometimes when I speak Welsh to people in shops in Bangor they will reply in English. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-endangered-languages","category-language","category-language-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}