‘Unofficial Languages’

“Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language…and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do… Let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
–Genesis 11:1-7

UNESCO (U.N.) has declared this the ‘International Year of ‘Indigenous’ Languages’. In Canada, we have only 2 ‘official’ languages and current legislation seems like a backdoor attempt by the federal government to elevate aboriginal languages to a similar status; otherwise, there isn’t justification for spending on unofficial languages: