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Extinct & Endangered Language

Extinct & Endangered Language. Lec . 6. An endangered language?. What qualifies a language to be to be considered as an endangered language ? A language becomes extinct when no children learn it.

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Extinct & Endangered Language

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  1. Extinct & Endangered Language Lec. 6

  2. An endangered language? • What qualifies a language to be to be considered as an endangered language? • A language becomes extinct when no children learn it. • In most cases, parents are no longer teaching the language considered to their children, and are not using it actively in everyday matters

  3. Endangered vs. dead • An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use; • If it loses all its native speakers, it becomes a dead language. • If eventually no one speaks the language at all it becomes an extinct language.

  4. Do you know that … • The total number of world languages in active use is unknown (6000) • half of the world languages will become extinct in the 21 century, and that only 1000 or so languages will by the 22nd. • this decline is due to the political & economic pressures

  5. The Concerned International Bodies • The UNESCO committee on Language Endangerment • The Foundation for Endangered Languages , established in the UK IN 1995 • The Linguistic Society of America’s Committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation

  6. According to Michael Krauss, language is

  7. The criteria to identify endangered languages • The number of speakers currently living • The mean age of native and/or fluent speakers • The percentage of the youngest generation acquiring fluency with the language in question

  8. Reviving Endangered Languages • Language documentation (lexicon, grammar, & oral tradition) • language revitalization (political, community, & educational means)

  9. References • The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, by David Crystal • www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/endangered_language

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