Back to the Future of Endangered Languages | Colleen Fitzgerald | TEDxUTA
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ย. 2024
- Rapid globalization and technology that brings majority world languages into minority language homes threatens the survival of the estimated 6,000 to 7,000 languages worldwide. Whether in Africa, Australia, the United States or beyond, tiny languages are endangered, with their survival often depending on the last elderly speakers. Europe's endangered Irish language is a great story of a language reviving its prospects, but success stories of languages renewed and reclaimed abound, such as the Wampanoag language, spoken by the tribe reputed to have celebrated the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims. The human spirit craves a connection to ancestors and the past, and heritage languages do just that, while breathing new life into the future.
Rapid globalization and technology that brings majority world languages into minority language homes threatens the survival of the estimated 6,000 to 7,000 languages worldwide. Whether in Africa, Australia, the United States or beyond, tiny languages are endangered, with their survival often depending on the last elderly speakers. Europe's endangered Irish language is a great story of a language reviving its prospects, but success stories of languages renewed and reclaimed abound, such as the Wampanoag language, spoken by the tribe reputed to have celebrated the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims. The human spirit craves a connection to ancestors and the past, and heritage languages do just that, while breathing new life into the future.
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That's really cool how the Wompanog (forgive my most likely incorrect spelling) language was revived.
+crlight I think you mean Wampanoag
i wish I could remember the title but they made a documentary the revitalization of Wampanoag. It is an incredible story about how a singlular woman with no linguistic background spear headed the revitalization project.
Amazing, in the early 1800's, Irish languages was much stronger (in terms of portion of global population that spoke it nativly) than Finnish is now. (I am from Finland.)
I meant "Irish language" (singular).
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Maith thú.
An-spéisiúil.
Comhghairdeas.
I see you have an interest in the Gaelic languages, I do too though I don't speak any...I hope to see more resources oinline for learning Gaelic languages soon and more information about them available in schools in the UK and Bretony
Technically Languages can be brought back such as Hebrew
And it is certainly not anymore the same language. You lose intonations, accents, words and oral expressions.
@@BabaBugman Not neccessarily
Read "Travels Among Threatened Languages" by Mark Abley. Very interesting and readable book.
enkidu360 Do you mean ‘spoken here’? Yes, I love it.
2:07, it says "Every continent... has an endangered language." Not strictly true: Antarctica has no permanent population, hence no endangered languages.
You must be fun to hang out with ...
Poor woman, she keeps making slips of the tongue, she doesn't seem comfortable speaking in public :s So am I.
She seems fine to me. Not the most eloquent maybe but she seems comfortable enough in what she's saying!
She is a linguist, not necessarily a presenter or speaker. The content of the talk is very important though.
daaaaamn !!! i can already see my local language die . only 20 years ago mazani had 3 or 4 million speakers but now i can say less than one million .
Hei! Jeg heter Abhirami! Jeg bore i India! Hvorfor En en jeg lære Norsk? Jeg elsker det!
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Dislakes...why?
tena koe mo o korero rangatira
Kia ora!
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