Re: International Recognition
> outlived their usefulness to construct a politically-useful "identity"
Yes, that is essentially what the Prussians, Russians and Austrians said about my native language in the late XVIII and XIX centuries, as they were reacting to various independence movements. I'm sure it was also said about the languages of many Native peoples' subjugated by various flavors of Anglosaxons.
Curb your cultural imperialism, mate.