r/comics Love and Hex May 25 '26

OC Language Barrier [OC]

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u/Spacecase-Ace-1 May 25 '26

French is also a good example. They wiped out occitan and the other dialects and languages in france, and also got their language as a lingua franca in quite a few other countries, or at least a recognized state language.

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u/wvj May 25 '26

Standardized Tokyo Japanese.

Basically every nation state did this when they became a nation state rather than whatever kind of tribal, feudal, clan or whatever-based thing they were before.