ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Himalayas, Multilingualism, Language Shift
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Most people are multilingual: predator languages. Languages that take over other languages: langu-cide . The destroying of language: language shift. People give up their language but still live on: languages are like species. But, for biological reasons, the number of males/females are intragyral to survival, but not for people. Ie if there is a group of people over 60 who speak a language and everyone under 60 doesn"t speak it, there is a huge population that speaks it but it doesn"t mean it will live on: unesco. Areas that are rich in biological species were also rich in cultural diversity. 1/6 of the languages in the world are spoken in the himalayas. They don"t want people to have their own language. A lot of languages spoken are indigenous and only spoken, not written: 60% of aboriginal languages are spoken in bc. But most of them are losing their languages. Provincial crown company is trying to save languages.
