The number of speakers was further reduced by the official suppression of the language in the Soviet Union, by the antagonism of early Israeli authorities zealously guarding modern Hebrew, and by massive voluntary shifts to other primary languages in Western countries.
The colonial suppression of Korean-language publications was an effort to mobilize toward war, and it forced Korean writers to face the loss of their letters and devise new, creative forms of expression.
Supporters of Taiwanese writing are in general deeply suspicious of government involvement, given the history of official suppression of native languages, making it unclear whether Tâi-Lô or POJ will become the dominant system in the future.
Mountain Language (1988) is about the Turkish suppression of the Kurdish language.
Mountain Language was partly inspired in 1988 by Turkish suppression of the Kurdish language.
Less expected was a strand of political anger, not least in Lepage's rendition of Michèle Lalonde's Speak White, an incendiary poem railing against Anglophone suppression of the French language.
They range from Machiavellian infiltration of the protest movement in the opener, Kwok Zune's Extras, to the suppression of the Cantonese language in Dialect, by Jevons Au, in which local taxi drivers can't work unless they speak Mandarin.
Four years later he wrote Mountain Language: inspired by the Turkish suppression of the Kurdish language but also reflecting Pinter's concern with the restrictions on speech and thought in Thatcher's Britain.
Pinter's experiences in Turkey and his knowledge of the Turkish suppression of the Kurdish language inspired his 1988 play Mountain Language.
Meanwhile, calculated and effective methods of cultural and physical elimination took place in the forms of language suppression, child abuse, sexual abuse, environmental abuse, sterilization, and murder.
