<![CDATA[Ara Balears in English - linguistic substitution]]> 10 <![CDATA[Catalan is not the problem, Vox is the problem]]>

Every time the far right talks about language, it's important to understand their message. When they say flexibility, they mean elimination; when they talk about the efficiency of public services, they mean that citizens will no longer be able to exercise their linguistic rights; and when they describe Catalan certificates as... exclusive titleWhat really bothers them is that the country's own language continues to have a presence in public life.

]]> <![CDATA[Alicante is important]]> What has happened in Alicante with the language could end up happening in the Balearic Islands, no matter how far away it may seem. It's more or less similar in Alicante. The city of Alicante is the best studied and documented case of language substitution in the world, thanks to Brauli Montoya's comprehensive study. Alicante, the interrupted languageMontoya, who, incidentally, was a professor of Catalan Philology at the UIB, offers some chilling data, such as the fact that the Civil War (which, it should be noted, ended in the port of Alicante) caused some families to speak Spanish to their children born after the war, in contrast to those born before. When successive waves of Spanish-speaking labor arrived in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, they found a linguistic desert where the natives themselves had already sown salt to further stifle the timid signs of recovery.

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