Multilingual Mamas

Episode 30: Parlant català a Barcelona


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In this episode, we chat with Dr. Silvia Perpiñán, a linguist at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and mother of a trilingual daughter. One of the languages Silvia and her daughter speak is Catalán, the Romance language native to several regions of Spain and southern France, but which is now a minority language despite concerted revitalization and maintenance efforts. Dr. Perpiñán reflects on the difference between indigenous language maintenance and immigrant language maintenance as well as how societies can better support multilingualism and be more linguistically tolerant.
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