Litir fhosgailte a thaobh na Gàidhlig agus gearraidhean Riaghalas na h-Alba.
An Open Letter to Defend Gaelic
- Misneachd writes: “There will not be a second chance to preserve Gaelic as a spoken vernacular language in Scotland.”
#Gaelic #Scottish #Gàidhlig #languages #LanguageDeath #culture #MastoDaoine
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2024/03/05/an-open-letter-to-defend-gaelic/
Do you have a publicly available bibliography of material that would enable one to learn #handwriting #copybook in the 350 or so endangered #writingsystemsforindigenouslanguages #endangeredalphabets ?
Most of the languages that utilise those #WritingSystems are also facing #LanguageDeath, and #CultureNegation.
The Last Speaker: South Africa’s dying language
Compiling a dictionary of click-based words, Claudia works to save her grandmother’s dying San, or Bushman, language.
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/africa-direct/2022/12/13/the-last-speaker-south-africas-dying-language
#LanguageDeath #EndangeredLanguages #LanguageDocumentation #linguistics
Why Do Languages Die?
Danny Hieber | 01/04/2012
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But these languages clearly do have value, if for no other reason than simply because people value them. Local and minority languages are valued by their speakers for all sorts of reasons, whether it be for use in the local community, communicating with one's elders, a sense of heritage, the oral and literary traditions of that language, or something else entirely. Again, the praxeologist is not in a position to evaluate these beliefs. The praxeologist merely notes that free choice in language use and free choice in association, one not dictated by the edicts of the state, will best satisfy the demand of individuals, whether for minority languages or lingua francas. What people find useful, they will use.
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https://mises.org/library/why-do-languages-die
#languages #toki #moli_toki #EndangeredLanguages #LanguageDeath #sona #anno2012
Why Do Languages Die?
Danny Hieber | 01/04/2012
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One good answer is urbanization. If a Gikuyu and a Giryama meet in Nairobi, they won't likely speak each other's mother tongue, but they very likely will speak one or both of the trade languages in Kenya — Swahili and English. Their kids may learn a smattering of words in the heritage languages from their parents, but by the third generation any vestiges of those languages in the family will likely be gone. In other cases, extremely rural communities are drawn to the relatively easier lifestyle in cities, until sometimes entire villages are abandoned. Nor is this a recent phenomenon. The first case of massive language die-off was probably during the Agrarian (Neolithic) Revolution, when humanity first adopted farming, abandoned the nomadic lifestyle, and created permanent settlements. As the size of these communities grew, so did the language they spoke. But throughout most of history, and still in many areas of the world today, 500 or fewer speakers per language has been the norm. Like the people who spoke them, these languages were constantly in flux. No language could grow very large, because the community that spoke it could only grow so large itself before it fragmented. The language followed suit, soon becoming two languages. Permanent settlements changed all this, and soon larger and larger populations could stably speak the same language.
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https://mises.org/library/why-do-languages-die
#languages #toki #moli_toki #EndangeredLanguages #LanguageDeath #sona #anno2012
#jan_toki #kulupu #nanpa500
Why Do Languages Die?
Danny Hieber | 01/04/2012
https://mises.org/library/why-do-languages-die
#languages #toki #moli_toki #EndangeredLanguages #LanguageDeath #sona #anno2012
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