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The Dublin Inquirer<\/a> cited a book by Timothy Reagan, professor of foreign language education, in a report about budget airline Ryanair forcing South African travelers to the U.K. to take a quiz in Afrikaans to prove their nationality. Reagan\u2019s 2019 book \u201cLinguistic Legitimacy and Social Justice\u201d says that today\u2019s Afrikaans evolved from the Dutch language, whose speakers colonized South Africa centuries ago. The fraught history of the language makes the Ryanair incidents \u201call the more painful and ironic,\u201d according to the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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