Losing Language

‎"Shackle a people, strip them bare, cover their mouths: they are still free. 


Deprive them of work, their passports, food and sleep: they are still rich.


A people are poor and enslaved when they are robbed of the language inherited 


from their parents: it is lost forever." Sicilian poet, Ignazio Buttitta (1972)

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