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Speaking a national common language and another mother tongue doesn't have to be mutually exclusive. Singapore is a good example of this: they adopted English
by United857 5y ago
Speaking a national common language and another mother tongue doesn't have to be mutually exclusive.
Singapore is a good example of this: they adopted English as the common national language, while having a bilingual education system that preserves the mother tongues.
- emodendroket 5y agoIs it? I’ve heard of them mostly stamping out most of them, eg here https://www.economist.com/asia/2020/02/22/singapore-has-almost-wiped-out-its-mother-tongues https://www.economist.com/asia/2020/02/22/singapore-has-almo... I’d also say it’s not like they’re really going around saying you can’t speak Cantonese at home. The issue is that there is natural attrition when school and official things are in one language (not that different from what the article describes).
- bmn__ 5y agoThere is no preservation of mother tongues. Languages are assigned along ethnic lines in the name of nation building. yellow → standard Chinese native → Malay brown → Tamil If the father is a Fujian Hakka, the children will learn standard Chinese in addition to English. If the father is from New Delhi, the children will learn Tamil in addition to English. If the father is from Lisbon, the children will learn English only.