Grim.

Across Scotland, children were given the belt and humiliated for speaking Scots, Gàidhlig, Orcadian, Shetlandic...

Up into the 1970s.

And people wonder why our mither tongue languages are in decline

- the wirds hae bin beaten oot o wir maws for decades.
Reposted from Nick Lloyd
School book belonging to a 12-year-old. Village near Tolosa, Basque Country, 1966. "In school I must not speak Basque" 1,000 (one thousand) lines.

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