CatharinaFeb 21
European Commission

On International Mother Language Day, we celebrate the rich linguistic and cultural diversity that defines our Union, as well as the importance of protecting and promoting mother tongues across Europe.

The EU is home to:
🌍 24 official languages
🎉 60 regional or minority languages spoken by 40 million people

Multilingualism is a founding principle of our Union and part of what makes our continent so vibrant.

This diversity is our strength.

Feb 21 at 8:20amWeb
Show threadⓋ Gregory Trolliet Ⓐ🔻 🇵🇸Feb 21
@EUCommission Top tier propaganda 👏
Show threadA Sardinian AbroadFeb 21
@faket @EUCommission
So, what's your point?
Show threadⓋ Gregory Trolliet Ⓐ🔻 🇵🇸Feb 21
@ASardinianAbroad @EUCommission My point is that, while some languages are promoted inside UE, some aren’t welcome.
So yes, unbreakable bond, if you’re white and do not come from too far away.
Show threadAdelinaFeb 21
@faket @ASardinianAbroad @EUCommission I don't experience it like this, in my EU country schools offer special classes for students who speak a different native language at home, my own town offers a total of 55 languages currently, the following languages are the top 5: Arabic, Assyrian, Somali, Bosnian, and English. If all these 55 languages were not welcome why is the state investing so much in giving kids access to tuition in their native languages?
Show threadⓋ Gregory Trolliet Ⓐ🔻 🇵🇸Feb 21
@bluishgreen @ASardinianAbroad @EUCommission Because even if not welcome, some are passing through Frontex and other national borders.
Show threadA Sardinian AbroadFeb 21
@faket @EUCommission that's a good point.
Language represents the identity of a people, so I support the full recognition of all languages that define identity.
Show threadⓋ Gregory Trolliet Ⓐ🔻 🇵🇸Feb 21

@ASardinianAbroad @EUCommission Yeah, of course, but at least here in french speaking European country (but my guess would be that that’s the same for other languages), we did all we could to suppress all local languages for the sake of the nation. Now we are accepting some others languages but some are well accepted, others not that much.

UE saying that "Multilingualism is a founding principle of our Union" while killing immigrants on the Mediterranean See is abject.

Show threadPare  🚲 🌞Feb 21
@EUCommission
E riusciamo, almeno questo, a dirlo in più di una singola lingua?
Show threadAngelo Massaro 🇪🇺Feb 21
@Pare @EUCommission ma l'UE mi sembra molto attiva nel campo delle traduzioni, basta visitare i vari portali informativi dell'Unione. Poi se questo tipo di post sono in inglese, immagino sia per la maggiore visibilità linguistica, di certo non per far affronto alla nostra bella lingua romanza.
Show threadPare  🚲 🌞Feb 21

Buongiorno @angelomassaro,
non dico che l'intero impianto dell'UE sia contrario alla pluralità linguistica.

Però i problemi ci sono e l'uso smodato di una lingua difficile come l'inglese, usata come "standard de facto", anche se molte e molti europei non la capiscono o la capiscono male, è uno di questi.

A volte i bandi vengono tradotti con mesi di ritardo, creando una pesante discriminazione.

Oggi l'@EUCommission ricorda questa giornata e lo fa dimenticando le lingue madre di quasi tutti.

Show threadNemo_bis 🌈Feb 22
@Pare @EUCommission Sarebbe bello avere qualche lingua in più in ec.social.network.europa.eu. Altrove si trovano utenze UE in ben 42 lingue. Per esempio @europainitalia @ComisionEuropea @UEfrance.
Show threaddocDFeb 21
@EUCommission and our weakness. Look how the EU still cannot agree on building a new fighter aircraft (Germany - France). National interests still rule instead of European unity.
Show threadGunChleocFeb 21
@docdanny @EUCommission National interest and letting people speak their own languages are not the same thing.
Show threaddocDFeb 21
@gunchleoc @EUCommission I was not referring at all to languages (even culture). I have no problems with that. Why would I otherwise speak 3 and learn a 4th European language. It's about co-operation (military and economically) in the EU and thinking bigger than just my own "National interest". E.g. economically: less national boundaries to regulations, 1 EU approval, etc. E.g. military: too much overlap, no unified command structure, competing systems, ... e.g. https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026/02/france-germanys-next-generation-fighter-project-is-dead-00768936
POLITICO Pro: France, Germany’s next-generation fighter project is ‘dead’

An official familiar with French President Emmanuel Macron’s thinking said a failure is more likely than a relaunch.

Show threadKuboF Hromoslav bio/acc 🧬Feb 22
@docdanny @EUCommission, we can preserve and develop our mother languages, while in the same uniting Europe by a mutual language that does not belong to any particular nation. #Esperanto is the best current candidate for the job 😊
Show threadsplaFeb 21
@EUCommission yes, sure...just one problem here, catalan people still waiting...
Catalan is our language but you forget about us so you are not respecting our mothers and fathers language day.
Show threadJörg BaranczekFeb 21

@EUCommission Muttersprache ist ok. Aber ich muss nicht überall meine Vatersprache sprechen sondern kann auch die Sprache meines Wohnortes lernen und dort sprechen .

Oder mann erfindet eine gemeinsame Einheitssprache für die EU, sowas wie Esperanto. Müsste dann aber überall in der Schule gelehrt werden.

Jedenfalls kein US-Englisch.

Show threadMartin KosteraFeb 21
@Jörg Baranczek
Jedenfalls kein US-Englisch.

Is Irish and Maltese English okay? 🤔
Show threadaserramonnerFeb 21
@EUCommission the catalans are overwhelmed by your love and protection. Founding principle. Ha. So much bullshit ...
Show threadJoan of Contention 😷Feb 21
@EUCommission Go raibh maith agaibh.
Show threadKalle KniiviläFeb 21

@EUCommission Hieno periaate, mutta käytännössä kaikki on englanniksi?

🤔

Show threadTommi NieminenFeb 21
@kallekn @EUCommission Puhutaanhan sitä sentään kahdessa EU-maassa 😜
Show threadKalle KniiviläFeb 21
@tomminieminen @EUCommission Paperilla kahdessa, käytännössä kaikissa.
Show threadTommi NieminenFeb 21
@kallekn @EUCommission Periaatteessa sama pätee lähes mihin tahansa annettuun kieleen!
Show threadDomFeb 21
@EUCommission Ich wusste gar nicht, dass es diesen Tag gibt. Das finde ich, wie wir in Deutschland sagen würden, cool! 🙃
Show threadHacker Feb 21

@EUCommission Catalan is spoken by 10 million people and still it's not an official language of the EU.

Each country has its own policies to manage other languages, most of the time the minority language keeps waning. It's not an EU thing.

Show threadFrischlingFeb 21
@EUCommission less than in Ghana, for example. The nostalgic clinging to different languages is laughable - downtown a certain degree it hinders free information flow and free trade, which are some of the more important central things of the EU. I like diversity as in different views on the same subject, and all languages in the EU are easily translated, so that's fine, but once you have to get a translator for the translator, to show people your product, you're basically f***ed.
Show threadCount HoldemFeb 21
@EUCommission Well if The Greenland Ice Sheets melt toward Northern Europe due to fossil fuels abuse causing an AMOC collapse; you better reinvent "unbreakable" right-quick.
Show threadCairo BragaFeb 21
@EUCommission then maybe tell France to stop actively suppressing languages other than Northern French inside its own territory!!! or recognize Catalan, a language with 10mi speakers, spoken in 3 EU countries!!!
Show threadBackhand Topspin 🟨Feb 21

@EUCommission "60 regional or minority languages spoken by 40 million people", being Catalan the main one of the "regional" languages, with around 10 milion speakers. Catalan is more spoken than other official EU languages, and yet, YOU DON'T GIVE A DAMN and treat us like second class Europeans.

So take your whitewashing International Mother Language Day and f**k off.

You can still demonstrate your commitment with actions, not empty words.

Show threadFransua5Feb 21
@EUCommission
Kial en la angla ?
Show threadMartin KosteraFeb 21
@Fransua5
Proč ne?
Show threadCabòries Entròpiques 🦣 🤦🖤🤟Feb 21
@EUCommission
Algunes llengües "regionals o minoritàries" són més parlades que altres llengües "oficials".
Llengües que també són oficials per llei i parlades en més d'un país.
Dividir en 2 categories les llengües que parlen els pobles europeus ja diu molt de la vostra ignorància i menyspreu.