In article . com,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

Would you call Lakota a foreign language in the US?

In the context of modern-day America, and this conversation, of
course.

Amazing. A language spoken continuously by indigenous US citizens in the
US and that long predates the use of English in the US is "foreign"? As
with Jim M., I'm guessing that for you the phrase "foreign language"
means something like "non-official language", or "non-dominant
language", or "language I don't speak", or "language some foreigners
use", rather than what the phrase might mean to many of the rest of us,
something like "a language not spoken by the indigenous peoples of a
certain area" (to steal a definition from somewhere else)?

Yours is a very ... *odd* ... definition of foreign language, to be sure.


Really, I don't care WHAT language is mandated. Hell, let's use
Sioux, if you want.

If we used Sioux in the United States for that purpose would it suddenly
make English foreign in the US?


But one must be decided upon and adhered to, officially, or America is
doomed to become Yugoslavia.

What an ironic thing to say...

Hamish