Silencing a group’s native language is more than erasure, it’s cultural geno$ide. Language carries identity, memory, and tradition. When it’s stripped away, generations lose a vital 🧠 connection to who they are. Examples ⬇️ ➡️ Boarding Schools in the U.S. 🇺🇸and Canada 🇨🇦 Indigenous children were forbidden 🚫 from speaking their languages, punished for words that carried centuries of wisdom. ➡️ The Suppression 🚫of Kurdish in Turkey 🇹🇷 For decades, speaking Kurdish was banned in public lif