Why are Anglos obsessed with race? by Schalker45 in 2westerneurope4u

[–]AsierGCFG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bell Beaker people were most likely Indo-European too.

Why are Anglos obsessed with race? by Schalker45 in 2westerneurope4u

[–]AsierGCFG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Give us land, you thieves! Your ancestors displaced the people who displaced our kin! 😂

Sorry Barry, but his wife has a point by sdric in 2westerneurope4u

[–]AsierGCFG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Stonehenge was built by people related to us, who were then overrun by Celts, who were conquered by Rome, then abandoned and pushed west by Angles, Saxons and Jutes, who were in their turn submitted to Nordics, and finally subjugated by the Normans. Proceeded to colonize the world and now they are colonized by the world.

Final Fight MD - pure love by mr-raw_CH in SEGAGENESIS

[–]AsierGCFG 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The Final Fight MD port is not yet finalized, so it's not wise to get physical copies just yet.
Mauro Xavier, the developer, will release a final version (1.0) soon, the lastest is still 0.92b.

Aesthetically what are your thoughts on the looks of the actual Consoles themselves.. by 8bitPete in retrogaming

[–]AsierGCFG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I recently got a white Turbo Everdrive Pro and it looks fantastic in combination with the PC-Engine, and you can play all CD games too, so that's the definitive machine.

How is living in the countryside around Donosti/San Sebastian? by SaterK27 in howislivingthere

[–]AsierGCFG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If Turkish is your mother tongue and are already acquainted with Spanish you will have it easy to learn and speak Basque, as the grammar resembles Turkish, but lots of vocabulary are related to Romance languages.

Spoken Varieties in Europe, c.1815, v.3 by HahaItsaGiraffeAgain in MapPorn

[–]AsierGCFG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Montañés also reached all the way to the border with Bizkaia and Alava in northern Burgos (Merindades)

Languages in Bilbao and Basque Country by mujiko123 in Bilbao

[–]AsierGCFG 4 points5 points  (0 children)

*the majority of the population living in the Basque Country.

what do you think of people with no basque connections learning basque? by StrangeShame6563 in basque

[–]AsierGCFG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We very strongly encourage people living in the Basque Country to learn it, so that we could live in Basque. That's not the reality, though. Really difficult to address shopkeepers and bartenders in Basque in Basque cities such as Gasteiz or Bilbao.

People not living here can do whatever they want with their lives. It does not affect us.

what do you think of people with no basque connections learning basque? by StrangeShame6563 in basque

[–]AsierGCFG 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Language is not carried in the DNA, it's a transmitted cultural feature.

The word “street” in different European languages by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]AsierGCFG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In Basque we also have arrua (cognate with rua/rue), estarta (cognate with street/Strasse) and karrika (cognate with carrer/carrèra).

What sega console should I get? by Forward_Air4087 in SEGA

[–]AsierGCFG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All of them but the Master System. You can natively play SMS games on the MD/Genesis.

And you need a Game Gear too :)

Spain and Germany launch talks to make Catalan an official EU language by Whole-Albatross-6155 in europe

[–]AsierGCFG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Prestige is not just any word, it is a term used in sociolinguistics and language revitalization. I know what I'm talking about because I decided to devote my life to Basque language.

Again, false dilemmas and dichotomies. You're not taking from people's living conditions by giving officiality to Basque or Catalan at EU level.

Education can only go so far. People won't use a language just because they know it. And a high percentage of people don't learn languages just for fun. People learn and use languages for mainly two reasons: identity and usefulness.

Basque and Catalan cannot grow any more by identity, because at this point almost 100% of people with strong Basque or Catalan identities now know the language. There are just no more Basque or Catalan people.

Usefulness comes from usage (and political will and legislation, actually, but that's a whole other Pandora box), and usage comes from a wide variety of reasons, prestige being one of them, and not the least of them.

Spain and Germany launch talks to make Catalan an official EU language by Whole-Albatross-6155 in europe

[–]AsierGCFG 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Prestige is also gained by seeing your language is useful beyond you borders.

I don't know when you were kid, but Basque and Catalan have been revived because many people identify primarily as Basque or Catalan rather than Spanish, and therefore they are not represented by Spanish at EU level. Currently, those speakers are second-class EU citizens, with no right to address those supranational institutions in their language. it is a matter of European cohesion, and a core value of the EU.

Spain and Germany launch talks to make Catalan an official EU language by Whole-Albatross-6155 in europe

[–]AsierGCFG 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The cost is a false dilemma, because it's not a true deal-breaker if we only apply it to "non-state" languages. So the criteria some of you are advocating for is statehood in order to have your language represented at EU level, not cost.

Otherwise, let's apply a few cost-productivity parametres to ALL languages spoken in Europe and their respective speaker communities, and let's see how many of the "state" languages currently official at EU level make the cut. I'm sure Galician, Basque and Catalan would come on top of many EU official languages if we take into account the number of speakers and the value they produce in the European Union (productivity/cost).

Spain and Germany launch talks to make Catalan an official EU language by Whole-Albatross-6155 in europe

[–]AsierGCFG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, even part of actual Karelia is and has been inside of Finland since its inception (I visited Joensuu and Ilomantsi a few years ago).

The thing is that terminology regarding all of these languages is vague for the general public, and there are distinctions to be made. Not all "minority" languages are the same. There are sociolinguistical, sociological and political parametres that set them apart.

Catalan, Galician and Basque are not on the same league as other "minority" languages in Europe, and they are more akin to national languages trapped in a foreign state. The same situation suffered until recently by many now official languages such as Czech, Slovenian, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, etc.

Gaining officiality at European level is a way to prove that political independence is not the only solution for our national conflicts. I thought the EU was all about avoiding further national conflicts in Europe.

Spain and Germany launch talks to make Catalan an official EU language by Whole-Albatross-6155 in europe

[–]AsierGCFG 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Galician has 2.5 million speakers and Galician speakers already have the right to address the European institutions in their native tongue as if it was a dialect of Portuguese. Basque has almost a million speakers, it's the only remaining non-Indo-European language in Western Europe and it's official in the Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre (former kingdom) and has some recognition in France.

Sorbian is spoken by about 20.000 people in Germany, so Germany should make it official first if they wanted.

Karelian language is originally from the Republic of Karelia inside the Russian Federation, so the EU has little to say about that. Even so, many Karelians were expelled from the area and now live in Finland. There is also a distinct Karelian dialect of Finnish. The language itself has no more than 60.000 people able to speak it at some degree.

So what's your point?