The slaves of linguistic imperialism in the counterattack
- Since the conquest of Navarre by Castile (1512-1521), the imposition of Castilian to the Basque majority has been one of the axes of the colonization policy of the Upper Navarre. The assimilation of the language intensified in 1759 with the rise to the throne of Charles III of Castile and VI of Navarra, which initiated a policy of alteration of teaching in all the provinces of the kingdom, which praised, imposed and imposed Spanish as the official language of the empire, so that all dependents would speak in the same language. This glotocidal policy worsened in the nineteenth century in the breakwater and in the fascist dictatorship.
The Spanish or Castilian policy of colonization reached one of its main objectives: to make the 16th-century Basque majority of Nafarroa Garaia a linguistic minority in danger of extinction. This plan of destruction, as in the rest of Euskal Herria, was based on a supremacist ideology that introduced citizens to the bones that it is normal that they do not have the right to the language or that they lose the transmission of their own language.
After the death of the fascist dictator, the movement (and active) fighting for the recovery of the Basque Country achieved in 1980 that the Parliament of Navarre adopted the resolution to make the Basque Country official throughout Navarre. But the factual powers of the regime, through tricks, imposed in 1986 the Law of the Vascuence, drawing three linguistic areas without historical or socio-linguistic criteria. Its sole objective was to perpetuate the state of domination and minorities. This policy often prevents the learning and use of Euskera in the administration, or makes the language invisible in the landscape.
Some unions of Spanish ideology have filed their pleas against the decree on the use of the Basque Country, for the discrimination that supposedly generates the imposition of our monolingual Castilian Castilian speaking languages, when it is evident that Castilian is always imposed on the citizens of Nafarroa Garaia
In May 2015, the opportunity arose to change language policy with the quadripartite government. Some things improved (to some extent), but we soon realized that there was no intention of making a law that made the Basque official throughout the Foral Community. Instead, the municipalities of the non-vascophony area, poorly convened, had the opportunity to move to the mixed area and, consequently, the distribution was even more ridiculous than the previous one. A (very restrictive) decree on the use of Euskera was also adopted, largely annulled by the two judgments of the Superior Court of Justice of Navarra.
Some unions of Spanish ideology have filed their pleas against the decree on the use of the Basque Country, for the discrimination that supposedly generates the imposition on the monolingual Castilian speaking Castilian languages, when it is evident that Castilian is always imposed on the inhabitants of the Upper Navarre. By acting in this way, they have made it clear that they have been servants of the power structures that the Empire imposed on us over 500 years ago.
The only solution to this situation is to draw up a law that makes Euskera official throughout Navarre and a linguistic policy that guarantees Navarros the right to know Euskera and Euskaldunes to live in Euskera.
Raúl López Ekai and Araceli Montes Calvo
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