Vergonha
Sign in to saveIn Occitan, vergonha (, ) refers to the effects of various language discriminatory policies of the government of France on its minority or regional languages, (including Romance languages such as Occitan and Catalan, as well as non-Romance languages such as Alsatian and Basque), deemed patois, as opposed to standard French Vergonha is imagined as a process of "being made to reject and feel ashamed of one's (or one's parents') mother tongue through official exclusion, humiliation at school and rejection from the media", as organized and sanctioned by French political leaders from Henri Grégoire
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15 sectionsContents
- Overview
- 16th to 18th century
- Late 18th to late 19th century
- Abbé Grégoire's "Report on the necessity and means to annihilate the patois"
- The end of traditional provinces
- Late 19th century – Policies and legacy of Jules Ferry
- School discipline
- Pressure on the church
- Mid-20th century to the present
- Constitutional issues
- See also
- French language policy
- Similar policies in other countries
- References
- External links
In Occitan, vergonha (, ) refers to the effects of various language discriminatory policies of the government of France on its minority or regional languages, (including Romance languages such as Occitan and Catalan, as well as non-Romance languages such as Alsatian and Basque), deemed patois, as opposed to standard French Vergonha is imagined as a process of "being made to reject and feel ashamed of one's (or one's parents') mother tongue through official exclusion, humiliation at school and rejection from the media", as organized and sanctioned by French political leaders from Henri Grégoire onward.
Vergonha is still a controversial topic in modern French public discourse where some successive French governments, have denied discrimination ever existed or downplayed its effects; all the same, it is a commonly cited example of sanctioned systematic linguicide and cultural genocide. In 1860, before French schooling was made compulsory, native Occitan speakers represented more than 39% of the whole French population, as opposed to 52% for francophones proper; their share of the population declined to 26–36% by the late 1920s, Since the end of World War II, it experienced another sharp decline, to less than 7% by 1993.