Question

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When people are enslaved, as long as they hold fast to their
language it is as if they had the key to their prison
Can you think of examples in history where a conquered people
had their language taken away from them or had a language
imposed on them?​

Answer 1

There are examples in history where conquering countries who had held fast their language could win back their freedom from their ruler. The biggest example is that the British Empire left the impact of English on India. You can also say Spain and Portugal left the impact of their languages in Central America (i.e Mexico). History is full of people who don't let them keep their race and make them follow our race instead. If they don't, rulers will keep them in prison until they agree.

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Answer 2

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Mother tongue helps a person to express his feelings and thoughts most lucidly and intimately. Conquerors try to subdue and control the people of the enslaved territory by enforcing many measures such as use of force to crush dissent and imposing their own language on them.

From time immemorial the victorious nations have imposed their own language on the conquered people and taken away their own language from them. The Romans conquered many parts of Europe and replaced the local languages by their own language— Latin. Later on Spanish, Pourtuguese, Italian and French developed from Latin. The Muslim invaders imposed Arabic and Persian in the countries of Asia overpowered by them. In many Arab countries the local religion and language have disappeared. In India, a new language Urdu developed from the mixture of Persian and Hindi.