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Causes and effects of Language Death
Languages particularly the Americas and Australia, have died during this period.
Which leads to the death or destruction of the habitat...
REASONS FOR LANGUAGE DEATH
Changes in the Ecology of Languages
Replacing a traditional language by a new one for a new culture and social setting.
Leaving a tribal area and move to towns or other population to seek a better economy and living.
People will learn a language in which the economy is stronger due to more employment opportunities, and other economic advantages.
Languages with no writing system will tend to change
a language with a writing system and a written because it has expression and an aggressive culture.
Speakers can be influenced by political reasons such as colonialism and conquest of area.
EX: The Incas pressuring local areas to learn Quechua language
An endangered
language can be used as a secret language in situations in which its speakers are under heavy political or other pressure.
The destruction of multilingualism and multiculturalism.
*When one language dies, the other dies too.
LOSS OF DIVERSITY
The contribution to human knowledge is loss
Human language symbolizes the achievement of human intelligence. Therefore, when a language dies, genetic diversity loses human knowledge.
Loss of identity
Loss of culture's wealth
How can a language be saved?
It can be achieved though recording, documenting, and developing writing systems in order to retain the language in texts or audio/ video.
1. People from the community must be interested in saving the endangered language.
2. Government must also be interested in saving the language and do something about it in terms of the constitution and offering safeguards to the community.
3. Expertise: Linguist, teachers, and other professionals can make a difference when it comes to saving a language.
Linguist:
Studying and documenting a language, as well as analyzing it,can save a language.
Teachers:
Creating materials so the language can be taught and saved from dying.
References
Wurm, S. (1991). Language Death and Disappearance: Causes and Circumstances
(1st ed., Vol. 39, pp. 1-18). Sage.
Chebet-Choge, S. (n.d.). The case of dead and non-used Nandi anthroponyms.
In TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING LANGUAGE DEATH (pp. 38-52).
Bjeljac-Babic, R. (2000). 6,000 languages: An embattled herritage. 18-19.
Crystal, D (2000). Language Death, UK: Cambridge Universty Press.
Mihalicek, Vedrana and Christin Wisior. (2011) The language file
Lewis, M. Paul (ed.),(2014). Ethnologue: Language of the word , Dallas: SLintentional. online version
Musaed, T. (2013). The phenomena of Language: Death vs. Revival (6th ed., Vol. 13, pp. 642-649).
(2014) Language death silences the world,: The language docomention crownd online version
Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2014. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Seventeenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com.
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" This disappearance of languages continues today, and has greatly accelerated during the last two hundred years or so."
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