Disappearing languages

Disappearing languages

Postby Dora Aya » Wed May 17, 2017 6:47 pm

The disappearance of a language:
David Harrison, president of Swarthmore College's linguistics department and co-founder of the NGO Institute for Living Languages ​​for Threatened Languages, states in his book 'When Languages ​​Die' (2016) that "extinction of a language means erosion or extinction Ideas, forms of knowledge, and ways of referring to the world and human experience. " "No culture," Harrison adds, "has the monopoly of human genius and you never know where the next brilliant idea comes from.... We lose old knowledge if we lose languages."
In this context, language is not only the sum of phonemes with which a group of people communicate. It is also the expression of a people's culture, identity, its history. So, for example, I propose that a special program be established for the protection and revitalization of the Toggle language, in a joint effort of the Ministry of Education and Culture, together with the social organizations of these communities.
Dora Aya
 

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