Noam Chomsky: "Jika Anda kembali seabad di Eropa, di semua tempat oran...

"Jika Anda kembali seabad di Eropa, di semua tempat orang berbicara bahasa yang berbeda. Ada lusinan bahasa di Prancis dan Italia, dan mereka semua disebut Prancis [dan Italia], tetapi mereka tidak saling dipahami. Mereka bahasa yang berbeda. Dan mereka sebagian besar telah menghilang pada abad terakhir ini. Beberapa dilestarikan, seperti Welsh, beberapa dihidupkan kembali, seperti Basque atau Catelan sampai batas tertentu. Ada banyak orang di Eropa yang tidak dapat berbicara dengan nenek mereka karena mereka berbicara dalam bahasa yang berbeda."

--- Noam Chomsky

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Versi Bahasa Inggris

If you go back a century in Europe, all over the place people were speaking different languages. There were dozens of languages in France and Italy, and they're all called French [and Italian], but they were not mutually comprehensible. They were different languages. And they have mostly disappeared in the last century or so. Some are being preserved, like Welsh, some are being revived, like Basque or Catelan to some extent. There are plenty of people in Europe who can't talk to their grandmother because they talk a different language.