As a Latin American, I can say that we either use Nana (pr: nah nah) or Abuela for grandmother. Abuela tends to be used among Latins who speak Spanish as their first language. Nana, thus, being sometimes more pretentious.
*different topic* My Nana didn't teach her children spanish first growing up because she feared a stigma on them by society if they developed accented English. As a result, my generation weren't taught spanish at all. Our parents forgot how to speak fluently by the time they had us.
That's rather sad, actually. Making sure your offspring has it easier to get on is one thing, completely ignoring their heritage something completely different. A couple of years ago, the last person to actually speak Mansk (the original language of the Isle of Man) died and with him the language as nobody else bothered to keep it alive. Other minority languages around the world will follow and then in the next couple of centuries, the whole world will speak only one language (if it still exists then).
As an example, when I was in school, I was one of the few classmates who could speak the local dialect properly because the others' parents didn't speak it at home. I think dialect should be taught in schools along with "high" German so it doesn't disappear. At the same time it's important that kids learn the common language so they can communicate properly (and aren't made fun of or passed off as simpletons) outside their region.
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*different topic* My Nana didn't teach her children spanish first growing up because she feared a stigma on them by society if they developed accented English. As a result, my generation weren't taught spanish at all. Our parents forgot how to speak fluently by the time they had us.
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Making sure your offspring has it easier to get on is one thing, completely ignoring their heritage something completely different. A couple of years ago, the last person to actually speak Mansk (the original language of the Isle of Man) died and with him the language as nobody else bothered to keep it alive. Other minority languages around the world will follow and then in the next couple of centuries, the whole world will speak only one language (if it still exists then).
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The same would apply to a common global language.