{"id":9030,"date":"2015-11-20T16:39:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T16:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=9030"},"modified":"2015-11-20T16:39:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T16:39:17","slug":"should-minority-languages-be-supported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/business-culture\/should-minority-languages-be-supported","title":{"rendered":"Should minority languages be supported?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9196\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9196\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/Cardiff_Central_railway_station_Cardiff_Wales.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9196\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/Cardiff_Central_railway_station_Cardiff_Wales.jpg\" alt=\"Cardiff Central railway station\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/Cardiff_Central_railway_station_Cardiff_Wales.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/Cardiff_Central_railway_station_Cardiff_Wales-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/Cardiff_Central_railway_station_Cardiff_Wales-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/Cardiff_Central_railway_station_Cardiff_Wales-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/Cardiff_Central_railway_station_Cardiff_Wales-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9196\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/Cardiff_Central_railway_station_Cardiff_Wales.jpg\" alt=\"Cardiff Central railway station\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/Cardiff_Central_railway_station_Cardiff_Wales.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/Cardiff_Central_railway_station_Cardiff_Wales-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/Cardiff_Central_railway_station_Cardiff_Wales-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/Cardiff_Central_railway_station_Cardiff_Wales-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/Cardiff_Central_railway_station_Cardiff_Wales-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Cardiff Central railway station<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Welsh language campaigners recently\u00a0demanded the English-only sign at Cardiff train station was change to a\u00a0bilingual version. It is really necessary to consider if all the minority language need to be protected or some of the language could be cleared away or not.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, English as the main language in the world. People have different opinions seen from it. \u201cI barely speak my mother language-Yoruba, only when cultural show, music or drama\u201d said by Dami, Nigeria. He also think the bilingual sign is depend on where it is. If there is a country whether it has two main languages, it is fine. But as his country, people talk in different languages, so he think it is easier just to have English. In contrary, Maria Roza, who is from Greece, speak Greek almost everyday, even in the classes. She thought that \u201cwelsh language is important and have to be respected\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>One person called Winnie from Guangzhou considered more people use, more people speaks and more spaces for Cantonese. The same viewpoint from Maria Roza, \u201cThere is no rule for the minority language, only the communication between us would protect it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the identity for one person\u201d said by Dami. It seems like all the minority language is a root and own culture in native country, which could not be clear away as easy as possible. And it just needs some helps from the rights in local.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welsh language campaigners recently demanded the English-only sign at Cardiff train station to be changed to <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":363,"featured_media":9160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-culture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Should minority languages be supported? - InterCardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Should minority languages be supported? 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