RLGA02H3 Lecture Notes - Endangered Language, Language Death, Multilingualism

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26 Apr 2013
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Being last speaker of a language means feeling isolated and having very few opportunities to speak ones language. Feeling nearly invisible surrounded by speakers of another more dominant language. Forgetting words and grammatical rules because of opportunity to use language in actual social context. Micheal krauss says statistics on language viability is hard to come by. Why: places with highest concentration of languages are in remote places, many government are either unaware of or actively hostile to speaker of languages aside from the ones recognized by the state. Many languages have already disappeared in the past millennia: no agreed upon set of criteria that distinguishes language from dialect. There are 6,909 languages as of 2009. 389 languages have atleast a million speakers, 6% of languages = 94% of world population. Languages are not evenly spread across the globe. Safe languages: languages that have official government support and/or large number of speakers. 10% of all world languages are considered safe.

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