LIN200H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Tariku Bekele, Northwest Semitic Languages, Orthodox Judaism
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The only thing real about a language is one person"s idiolect. Language vitality and death he languages of the world are not evenly distributed across the population. A few large languages, like mandarin, spanish, english, hindi, and arabic, are spoken by hundreds of millions speakers each, while many languages have only a few speakers let, like twendi (a mambiloid language of the. Niger-congo family, spoken in cameroon), sekani (a northern athabaskan language of the na-den family, spoken in british columbia), and kwerisa (an east tariku language of the lakes plains family, spoken in indonesia). Le to preserve folk taxonomy and cultural identity (data from https://www. ethnologue. com/statistics/size) Based on joshua fishman"s (1991) graded intergenerational disruption scale, paul lewis and gary. Simons"s (2010) expanded graded intergenerational disruption scale (egids) is a useful way of classifying languages based on their likelihood of becoming extinct (the full scale is given in the table below). Lewis and simons"s expanded graded intergenerational disruption scale.
