#walloon

[wgm-beautiful-world]

D I N A N T

[folkfashion]

Walloon Macrale maskers, Belgium, by Hugo.3329

[mcmicheal199a]

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[lexifranca]

i think starting to learn french was just the start of my downfall

ever since I've begun going down the Romance Rabbit Hole™ of "what if I learn Occitan?" "what if I learn Norman?" "what if I learn Catalan?" "What if I learn Walloon?" etc etc and it's great but also awful because WHERE am I gonna find resources to learn...like...Mirandese??

anyways one day I'll be able to speak to every single person from Portugal to Belgium just you WAIT

[spale-vosver]

Every European who's suddenly an expert on decolonization/indigeneity when it comes to Israel/Palestine should maybe start looking into their own country's history of colonialism...and I'm not talking about in Africa/Asia/North America, I'm talking about within Europe itself.

Like, for instance, the fact that there are over 100 endangered languages in Europe due to forced assimilation. Languages like Romansh, Walloon, Gagauz, etc. are all just as native, if not more so, to their respective regions than the dominant language, but have been forced into minority status in attempts to build a cohesive and homogenous national identity by the dominant cultural group.

In France, for instance, there are dozens of "French dialects" that are mutually unintelligible enough to be considered their own language, but have not been given minority recognition due to the national policy of having only one official language.

And just so you know...language erasure is considered a form of cultural genocide.

[crunchyto4stf0x]

Pronouns and neos across languages

Uhhhhh so yeah we know a shit ton of languages though we're only fully fluent in like 3-4ish we just study the rest sometimes... but we realized we never actually know what pronouns I prefer in other languages unlike english were we already use neutral and neopronouns.

Other multilinguals or natives of any of these languages pls correct us or smth if I got any pronoun sets wrong I'm like 80% sure we made mistake(s) throwing this togther quickly

It was fun to go through and see how we just refuse to be constant with our pronouns lol.

Anyways.............................................................................................

English (gender neutral with neopronouns and xenogenders): they/them, xem/xyr/xyrs/xyrself, it/its/itself, we/us/ours, star/stars/starself, ey/em/eir/eirs/emself, bite/bites/biteself 

Français (any, gender neutral preferred, + neos): iel/ellui, ael/aels, illes — Neutral stressed+disjunctive pronouns: (singular:) ellui, iel, luel, luiel, soi (plural:) elleux, euxelles, euxes, iels. no issue with elle or il when speaking french though. For iel: subject: iel stressed: ellui object: le/lae/li ossessive adjective: son/sa/ses or innovative forms reflexive: se)

Walon: lel, iel, ol, yel (possessive: so/ses) (reflexive: si)

Nederlands (neutral + neos): die/hen/hun/henzelf, ze/zich/zichzelf, een, xie/xem/xyr/xemzelf 

Türkçe (already a pretty gender neutral language/ + neos): o/olar/onu, ve/ver 

Dansk (gender neutral): hen/hen/hens/hen selv, de/dem/deres/dem selv

Norsk (I usually use he/him): de/dem/deres/dem selv, hen/hen, han/ham, ze/zir

íslenska (she/her or neutral + neos): hún/hennar, þau/þeirra/þeirra, hán/hán/háni/háns 

Ελληνικά (she/her + queer(neos?)): αυτή/αυτήν, το, ε

Latviešu (she/her and he/him): viņa/viņas, viņš/viņu/viņu

Melayu (gender neutral language already but): mereka, dia

Runa Simi (not a super gendered language, pay=she/him/neutral): pay/paykuna

čeština (any pronouns: he/she/it/they + neo: onx): on/jeho, oni/je/jejich, onx

Polski (she/her, they): ona/jej, ich/im, oni/ich/im/nimi

Yorùbá (already not a super gendered language. He/they): oun/un, awon/won

Tagalog (gender neutral preferred, any work): sila/siya

Deutsch (feminine pronouns preferred + neos): sie/sie, sier/siem/sie’s/sieser, dey/dem/deren

Italiano (he/they): lui/gli/loro

Bahasa Indonesia (doesn't matter/any/context): dia/dia-nya, mereka/mereka-nya 

Oʻzbek (barely know any of this language so I don’t care): u/u/uning

[thepastisalreadywritten]

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[questionable-idea]

The sad thing about native dialects is that the old generation makes up most of the fluent speakers nowadays, and it's hard to transfer it to the younger generation or to have opportunities to learn it well.

My family retains a few expressions in our dialect, but our last fluent speaker was my great-grandma who died before i was born. So I rely a lot on books and the internet to learn my own fucking roots.