Contrary Quote by Edward Sapir

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

— Edward Sapir

“The spread of languages shouldn't imply the decay of national languages. There are so many literary and historical memories, so many joys and sorrows…

— Kató Lomb

I doubt that national languages will disappear. In fact, to some extent they're becoming more diverse, like in Europe.

— Noam Chomsky

English is a second language in most of the educated sectors of Europe and much of the world. But maybe in the future Chinese…

— Noam Chomsky

A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact…

— Edward Sapir

Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for…

— Edward Sapir

It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear…

— Edward Sapir

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content…

— Edward Sapir

No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which…

— Edward Sapir

“In the twilight that was now the colour of dust, in the fury of horns that was a national language because honking had telegraphic…

— Manu Joseph

The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel…

— Jomo Kenyatta

“No one today is purely one thing. Labels like Indian, or woman, or Muslim, or American are not more than starting-points, which if followed…

— Edward W. Said