Question

when a people falls into servitude so long as it clings to its language it is as if it held the key to its prison

a. who were the people who would now be in servitude?

b. what would be the key to their freedom?

give me correct answer no irrelevant answer​

Answer 1

A person’s mother tongue or native language is what connects them to their culture and country. It gives them a sense of pride and belonging. This is why conquerors try to subdue the people of a conquered territory by taking away the native language and imposing their own language.

Throughout history, conquering nations have done the same. The Romans conquered many parts of Europe and replaced the languages in those regions with Latin. Similarly Muslim invaders imposed Arabic and Persian in the countries that they conquered in Asia. In many Arab countries, the local languages of the past do not exist anymore. In India, the language of Urdu developed as a mixture of Persian and Hindi.