Comments by "Cyberfunk" (@cyberfunk3793) on "Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)" channel.

  1. Nobody is stopping anybody from speaking their own language, but if the language isn't the official language of the country there is no need to teach it in schools no matter what the mother tongue of the person is or how large the minority speaking the language is. Same goes for offering services: no human right says that you deserve service in your own language that isn't the official language in the country you live in.
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  2. I think you underestimate the tenacity of these people to isolate themselves from the natives. Unless they are deported, I don't think the language will vanish from Latvia.
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  3.  @snonsense6295  So over 1 billion Indians and Chinese on the planet, so using your logic ru is a linguistic minority everywhere on the planet. You were not able to understand that a language minority refers to the situation inside a single country and ru language is a minority everywhere in the Baltics? In fact that language would not exist practically at all in the Baltics without the illegal occupiers that Stalin sent there.
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  4. Believe it or not, it happens elsewhere also, that some schools teach children in their mother tongue that isn't the main language or even one of the official languages in a country. I'm not saying it should be that way, but it happens.
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  5.  @CrapeCraft  Yeah that is exactly what I said wasn't it?
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  6.  @archs182  What does "Do minorities ask to speak them only in their native language?" mean?
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