Charlotte Calla has a question she thinks about often.
Is it a real rip?
– It is sadness and spontaneity not to know the language, as Kala says in Somar on the first page.
During Sunday broadcast Charlotte Class Summer talk at P1.
Then the former skateboarding queen spoke, among other things, of her legacy of Tornedalen and sadness at not being able to speak Meänkieli, one of Sweden’s five minority languages and the language her grandmother spoke.
I, who never knew the language, have the right to call myself torn? This is a question I’ve always thought about. When I was still living at home in Tärendö, I thought it was hard not to know the language and not be able to speak it fluently. We had compulsory home language instruction in primary school, but no one on my team saw the value of learning the language, says Kala in Somar in the first stage.
Invitation: “Social Phenomena”
Kalla also says that her parents’ generation had to carry with them the fact that it was “ugly” to speak Meänkieli, which also affected her while growing up in Tärendö.
– We should not blame our parents because they did not teach us, it is a societal phenomenon that the third generation has become without language, she says and then continues:
– I notice that many in my environment did not bring the language with them from home, but they want to restore it to explore among their roots. Not knowing the language is sad and rootless.
“Stop – Error Occurred”
After talking about Meänkieli, Kala jokes with her listeners as she plays the first notes of “It’s Here She Comes When You Come Home” with Euskefeurat.
– Neh, stop. Det här blev ju fel. Den Har Latin in the village of Jag Clart plays your part at home. Sånc så länge Euskefeurat – Raj-raj band men får ta över med “The longing here is always bottomless,” Säger Kalla.
Summer in P1 is released as a podcast at 07.00 and airs on P1 at 13.00.
