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[–] heird@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Lingua franca is a language that 2 groups speaking a different language both understand, English is a lingua franca.

It makes sense to teach in 2 languages when bit percentages of the population speak them, in the case of America teaching native American language would be pointless for the children aside from preventing the language from dying