–Jean-Jacques Lecercle (A Marxist Philosophy of Language)
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Eremu urriko hizkuntzak: Estatu Batuak vs. Sobiet Batasuna
"The country of liberal
free choice – the USA – has shamelessly practised a glottophagic politics that
destroyed the Indian languages, whereas the USSR of the dictatorship of the
proletariat pursued, at least at the start of its existence, a policy of protecting
and developing minority languages. In 1925, the US authorities burnt
dictionaries of Chamorro, the mother tongue of the inhabitants of the island of
Guam; in the same years, cohorts of Soviet linguists were employed providing a
script for spoken languages threatened with extinction"
