Dennis BoursSep 7, 2025
🌿 As nature fades, so do the words we use to describe it. Languages worldwide are losing biodiversity-related terms, threatening cultural identity and ecological awareness. Saving nature means saving language too. 📚🌎
🔗 https://grist.org/language/nature-word-language-disappear-culture/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Autoposting
#LanguageLoss #NatureWords #CulturalHeritage
The words we use to talk about nature are disappearing. Here’s why that matters.

We’ll need to do more than ‘touch grass’ to revive them.

Grist
Dr Priya Sammani ( MBBS ,DFM )Jun 9, 2025

I remember a patient, a lovely gentleman who used to fill my clinic room with laughter and stories. Then, one day, his daughter brought him in. He looked
 lost. #aphasia #braininjury #communicationdisorder #languageloss #speechtherapy #stroke

https://priya.health/aphasia/

Mastering Aphasia: How We Help You Communicate

Explore aphasia, a communication disorder affecting language due to brain injury like stroke. Learn about symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and speech therapy.

Health With Priya
That Word ChatMay 20, 2025

Our #ThatWordChat episode with Lorna Gibb will premiere on YouTube today at 4:30 PM ET!

Tune in: bit.ly/ThatWordVideo

#ThatWordChat #Linguistics #Books #LanguageLoss

JohannaLaakso MOVED/MUUTTANUTJun 27, 2023
#LanguageLoss as experienced by a person who never properly acquired her #HeritageLanguage, plus expert comments, busting the myths about #multilingualism, and making an important point: #MinorityLanguages are often not treated as languages but as ethnic attributes. When laypeople (also decision-makers) speak about "languages", "[I]t's often not about the languages at all – but about social attitudes, especially to immigration."
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230608-what-happens-when-you-cant-speak-your-parents-native-language
'I can't say my own name': The pain of language loss in families

Mithu Sanyal never learned her father's native language, Bengali, as a child. Is it too late to reclaim it?

BBC
マăƒȘă‚Ș (Mario Menti)Jan 16, 2023

Unlike biodiversity loss, I have to admit I hadn't really thought about the impact of the climate crisis on language loss before.

Every 40 days a language dies. This “catastrophic” loss is being amplified by the climate crisis, according to linguists. If nothing is done, conservative estimates suggest that half of all the 7,000 languages currently spoken will be extinct by the end of the century.

#ClimateCrisis #LanguageLoss

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/16/linguists-language-culture-loss-end-of-century-sea-levels-rise

Lost for words: fears of ‘catastrophic’ language loss due to rising seas

Climate crisis could be ‘final nail in the coffin’ for half of all surviving languages, say linguists, as coastal communities are forced to migrate

The Guardian