Posted on 09/04/2014 7:47:50 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
A study has found that minority languages in the most developed parts of the world, including North America, Europe and Australia, are most at threat.
The research is published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
The researchers say that efforts to protect these languages need to be focused on these areas.
Lead author Tatsuya Amano, from the University of Cambridge, said: "World languages are now rapidly being lost. This is a very serious situation.
"We wanted to know how the extinction is distributed globally and what are the main drivers of this."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Personally I believe that texting is driving language extinction.
First the multiculturalists want seprate languages, but then whine about language assimilation then push for a “One World Government” then whine that some languages are dying.....
They are Schizo...
Not so with Ebonics.
I don’t see why we should cry over the loss of minority languages.
[ While there’s certainly an upside to having everyone in the developed world speaking English and other “dominant” languages, I can’t help but think that the world is a poorer place without little ethnic enclaves with their own languages and customs. I hope that Frisian pulls through in a changing, internationalized world! ]
Languages ALWAYS die off, in the old days seprate tribes had different languages, as countries formed the more powerful tribes languages survived and other languages died. Languages are determined by the victor as well. Cumbersome unweildly languages die off and as a matter of fact unless the country using them is strong enough to keep the language alive.
The Left wants multiculturalism within nations (a bi or multi-lingual America, elimination of European ethno-nationalism) but political homogeneity across nations. What this means is that "multiculturalism" is just a tool being used to destroy local national identity to build an international (and ultimately homogenized) New World Order.
Part of the program of the agenda of the UN and other internationalist agencies is subverting local national identity, especially in Europe. Encouraging local nationalism is the strongest safeguard against world government.
That's not a language, my friend, it's gibberish. The same goes for the barrio Spanglish that's taking over the US Southwest.
“Lead author Tatsuya Amano, from the University of Babel, said...”
[ Exactly.
The Left wants multiculturalism within nations (a bi or multi-lingual America, elimination of European ethno-nationalism) but political homogeneity across nations. What this means is that “multiculturalism” is just a tool being used to destroy local national identity to build an international (and ultimately homogenized) New World Order. ]
A “True Multiculturalist” would want EVERY country to have strong national borders and strong immigration policies.
I support “multiculturalism.” Between nations, not within nations. A multicultural nation is a self-contradiction, because it’s no nation at all.
You no be dissin’ Ebonics, slick!!!
That’s how Yiddish got started, and the Romance languages diverged from Latin. . .
Why? We've got several serious situations, but this isn't one of them.
This is necessary to provide willing cadres who value primitivism, to replace the original natives who move to the cities and assimilate in order to improve their standards of living.
If we run out of anthropoligists, perhaps we could recruit from the Occupy crowd. They are already fond of drum cicles and lack of hygiene, and might leap at the chance to separate from the modern consumer society that they so detest. This would be a win-win solution.
Somehow, the world has managed to survive the loss of Yiddish, which was the native language of all four of my grandparents.
One of the best ways to preserve a language is to document it, create literature in it and then teach the literature in it to keep the language alive.
The Wycliffe Bible Institute, translating the Bible in hundreds of rare languages, is a good example of this. They are even using software, local translators and crowd-sourcing for some of their latest translation projects.
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