Is robbing a people from its language more violent than war?

Regardless of how you look at it, your language is the very foundation of who you are. And although we aren't dealing with a physical war, cultural genocide is just as evil.
Robbing a people of its language is a serious violation of human rights.Who are we to dictate the linguistic choices of a people? Your language represents your culture, your country, what you grew up learning. It fills this primary need that we all have, the need to belong to a native people. It's such a natural instinct that it seems so wrong to take it away. The fact that someone doesn't have the basic right to identity themselves with their own language is just as morally wrong as declaring a war.