Dominique Montet: French authorities suppress Creole language in French Guiana

The French authorities suppress the Creole language in French Guiana, said Dominique Montet, a member of the Decolonization and Social Emancipation Movement (MDES) from French Guiana, at a press conference organized by the Baku Initiative Group ahead of the international conference on "Colonialism: Destraction of National-Religious Identity," Report informs.

According to Montet, the process of language suppression began in the media and cultural sphere.

"There is a clear disregard for Creole speakers in our society. The French-speaking population enjoys greater privileges and opportunities. We only fully understood the scale of this problem in French Guiana when we saw that the new generation no longer knew their mother tongue, Creole," she stressed.

Montet emphasized that the inhabitants of French Guiana are actively raising the issue of the suppression of the Creole language at the international level.