ANTH 217 Lecture 16: anth reading- turnin
Document Summary
Language death is due to globalization and geopolitical pressures, rapid socio-economic. 97% of the world speaks 4% of the world"s languages. Predator languages: spanish, english, nepali and maybe portuguese. Glottophagy: languages that are are so socially dynamic, economically effective, and. Voices of vanishing worlds: endangered languages, orality, and cognition. 6500 languages spoken today may be extinct by the end of this century. Linguists do not save languages, speech communities do. Safety in numbers: linguicide and glottophagy politically well positioned that they end up eating other languages change. Linguists respond by entering in collaborative partnerships with speech communities. Macro politics and competing ethno-socio agendss of modern documentation. Documentation has started due to the power imbalance. Had to negotiate and arrived at a position where trust is established and maintained through collaborative work. Speech: text, orality, literacy, and the technological beyond. Thangmi of nepal: went from oral to textual, and textual to oral.
