@SimonRoyHughes There are languages that are losing speakers, and are on track to no longer be spoken, like Sámi and Kven.

#Icelandic is not one of those languages, and it wasn't under Danish rule. 93% of the population of Iceland are native, daily speakers.

Jakobsdóttir's anecdote that "kids in Iceland are even conversing in English sometimes between themselves" is not a serious challenge to this established pattern.

https://grieve-smith.com/blog/2018/01/remembering-alan-hudson/

#linguistics #LanguagePolicy #LanguageExtinction

Climate Change Is Killing Languages

Forced migration is a major cause of language extinction. Environmental disasters are driving these displacements in the very regions richest in languages.

#language #ClimateChange #ForcedMigration #environment #ClimateDisasters #LanguageExtinction

https://thewire.in/society/climate-change-is-killing-languages