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Lakshmi Iyer 
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Patricia Rosas wrote:
Thanks, too, to Jenny, for my laugh of the day: "The "last Cornish speaker" was one Dolly Pentreath whose tombstone can be seen in Paul churchyard ... To whom she spoke if she was the only speaker is not on record."
Best,
Patricia
That description of Jenny's made me smile too.
Not to mention another memorable intervention of hers in a recent thread about 'the worst place you've ever been' in which she described Lima (I think) as having a "landscape of cat litter". Thanks Jenny, I really enjoy your posts.
Susy, I spoke some Tamil as a child and there are a few Tamil speakers on this site. I mostly associate Sanskrit with weddings in India: lengthy, colourful, anarchic affairs where pot-bellied priests endlessly chant Sanskrit verses while all the guests wander around doing their own thing.
Steven, that's the first I'd heard of Ladino, too: do you speak it at all? Ozden, I translated a fascinating article not long ago about the tiny Karaite community in Lithuania, who speak an (endangered) Turkic Kipchak language.
Sorry to have been long-winded. Excellent topic, hope it doesn't die out! Thanks Susy.
| | | | veratek
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| Very sad problem | Jun 13, 2007 |
This is a problem anthropologists and others have been seriously trying to remedy for quite some time. Most of the threatened, disappearing languages are oral only and the entire traditional culture (including the language) is not being passed to newer generations.
Not only is this a tremendous loss from exactly an anthropological perspective, in the way of richness of human cultural diversity, the closest I've come to a traditional language (Inuit) showed me their oral poetry was n... See more This is a problem anthropologists and others have been seriously trying to remedy for quite some time. Most of the threatened, disappearing languages are oral only and the entire traditional culture (including the language) is not being passed to newer generations.
Not only is this a tremendous loss from exactly an anthropological perspective, in the way of richness of human cultural diversity, the closest I've come to a traditional language (Inuit) showed me their oral poetry was nothing short of magnificent.
With some of the recent political reforms regarding the traditional peoples of the North, measures have been implemented to preserve both culture and language, so hopefully it will be preserved. But when I think that for each beautiful language that may succeed in surviving there are hundreds that have already become extinct and so many others that will be lost, it's really as sad as killing off thousands of animal species.
And as long as we are on the subject, not only do we lose all these languages, but the use of our modern languages in most modern contexts is a most paltry and banal experience - another huge loss in my view.
I'll complain just about these two things for now
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| | | | Susy Ordaz
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Kaveri, many years ago, when I used to work for Canada Immigration as an interpreter, I would see hundreds of Tamil speaking refugees ask for political asylum once the plane touched Canadian soil. This of course after they had eaten their passports....and to find a Tamil speaking interpreter was almost an impossible feat. I guess the only thing we can do is try to maintain our languages alive and kicking so that they won't fall into any of thos four categories.
Thanks guys.
Susy
| | | | Fabio Descalzi
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| Moving this thread... | Dec 16, 2007 |
... to Linguistic Diversity forum
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| about MY language | Apr 9, 2008 |
Thank you for the topic sincerely,
it is a pity to hear that our native Belorussian language, second melodic in the world after Italian, is endangered. But many people say it is backward, and what should we do , when politicians themselves prefer Russian and textbooks in schools are in Russian?????
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