The Catalan linguist Carme Junyent died last September. We have followed closely what he said about language policy here, hoping that we will ever dare to implement some of his proposals. I was behaving without burnings. Many examples have been gathered in this journal: ARGIA has interviewed three times in the last ten years. For the last, in 2020, the monographic LARRUN was dedicated entirely.
It's not fair to bring your thriving work to a single book, but I want to talk here about a piece of work that Junente-laundered in 2021: Som It brought together 70 Catalan speaking linguists, women, who were critical of inclusive language. I know only Catalan above: a course of youth in the faculty, intensive thanks to the procésa, then… I don’t know what movement there is in that community of speakers with an inclusive language, and I can hardly imagine that it is so suffocating, until you write about that 70 Catalan speaking linguists. And not anyway, they've tried quite a bit.
I fear that many vasophils would not have in Junyent a fairly expert vision in Basque. And that is, the Basque is our only free territory.
I am amazed because I find it hard to imagine 70 Basque authors questioning inclusive language. But I live above all a point of envy, what you want them to say, just reading the book entry, written by Junente. I have not lived through this, but I would like to read these views also in Basque, written by the Basques. It will be a matter of size, like many other things. We are a million, they are about ten million. But does size matter so much?
I am afraid that many Vascophiles would not have that vision sufficiently skilled in Euskera. The Basque country is our only free territory. One, small and free. In other words, a clean and faded language. Of course, this “facade” understood in a very broad way. Unfortunately, or not, what could be a limitation to the spread of the Basque Country is perhaps also a strength for the survival of the Basque Country, a path of fortification. For a few, this association can make the Basque attractive, as some relate it to certain values, although for others this code will be uncomfortable or strange.
ARGIA has left us Junent before we can interview this coral book, and we will have to settle for the publications we have had so far, as well as all the others that have left us here. It's no small thing.