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The Academie Française is an extreme case, with a long backstory of hostility towards linguistic diversity. It’s as if the entity thinks “if you accept anything but The Standard (and We define The Standard) you’re threatening The Language, THE LANGUAGE WILL DIE!, so we must pre-emptively kill everything else”. And that hostility applies to both local varieties of French, like yours, and other regional languages co-existing in areas where French is spoken (like other Gallo-Romance languages, Basque, French-based creoles…).
But it doesn’t need to be like this. For example, I don’t notice the same tribalism coming from the IEC (Catalan language organ). Or even from the ABL (Portuguese language organ in Brazil) - sure, I might mock it as “cookie munchers”, and say it’s the wrong entity for this job, but I don’t see it targetting local varieties in the same way the AF does.
Also note this shitty situation of linguistic prejudice towards non-standard varieties does happen, even in the absence of an authoritative organ. For example, in English you see discrimination against Scots, African-American English, Appalachian English, both Indian Englishes, and English-based creoles.
The Academie Française is an extreme case, with a long backstory of hostility towards linguistic diversity. It’s as if the entity thinks “if you accept anything but The Standard (and We define The Standard) you’re threatening The Language, THE LANGUAGE WILL DIE!, so we must pre-emptively kill everything else”. And that hostility applies to both local varieties of French, like yours, and other regional languages co-existing in areas where French is spoken (like other Gallo-Romance languages, Basque, French-based creoles…).
But it doesn’t need to be like this. For example, I don’t notice the same tribalism coming from the IEC (Catalan language organ). Or even from the ABL (Portuguese language organ in Brazil) - sure, I might mock it as “cookie munchers”, and say it’s the wrong entity for this job, but I don’t see it targetting local varieties in the same way the AF does.
Also note this shitty situation of linguistic prejudice towards non-standard varieties does happen, even in the absence of an authoritative organ. For example, in English you see discrimination against Scots, African-American English, Appalachian English, both Indian Englishes, and English-based creoles.