LING 100 Lecture Notes - Language Shift, Language Death
10 Oct 2012
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73,7% of the world population speaks one of forty most common. The rest (26,3%) - speaks one of sixty eight hundred forty. The source of information: the report of dr. c. lehmann (germany) documentation of endangered languages - a priority task for linguistics made at the international. Conference linguistics by the end of the xxth century: achievements and. University, 1995, p. 306-307: 90% of the approximately 250 indigenous aboriginal languages spoken before 1800 are already dead and heading for death in. Australia: 80% of the estimated 187 native north american languages are extinct or destined to extinction in the usa and canada, every two weeks, somewhere in the world, a language disappears completely. When we lose a language we lose more than just a code for communicating with others. People losing their language are putting their socio-cultural identity at risk. Language as a means of storage and transmission of information.
