Anthropology 2245F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: List Of Languages By Number Of Native Speakers, Language Death, Language Revitalization
28 Nov 2016
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Objectives: describe the factors contributing to language endangerment, outline the process of language death, describe responses to language endangerment with examples. Linguistic equilibrium languages are dying but new are emerging. Languages die much more quickly than new emerge. They"re dying at a quicker rate now. Language is dead= no living speakers of it: there could still be written documentation of it however just no one speaking it anymore. Causes of language death: war, disease, dispersal of speaker= no community left, language shift, some happen very quickly; others take generations to happen, wide spread language death when agriculture really developed. Not being used in every day situation. Languages don"t survive if people don"t want to speak them or put no effort into speaking them. Endangered languages are found in multi-lingual communities where they speak the endangered language and more practical languages. Language death is a normal process in human history; therefore it is not a problem.
