Posted on 09/18/2007 2:35:30 PM PDT by Santa Fe_Conservative
WASHINGTON - When every known speaker of the language Amurdag gets together, there's still no one to talk to.
Native Australian Charlie Mangulda is the only person alive known to speak that language, one of thousands around the world on the brink of extinction.
From rural Australia to Siberia to Oklahoma, languages that embody the history and traditions of people are dying, researchers said Tuesday.
While there are an estimated 7,000 languages spoken around the world today, one of them dies out about every two weeks, according to linguistic experts struggling to save at least some of them.
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ping.
Hitlery will make us all learn Esperanto.
is this somehow related to global warming?
And what counts as a "language" vs. "dialect"... vs. just poor grammar being used in a region?
Hitlery will make us all learn Esperanto.No she won't. As far as she's concerned, money talks, bullsht walks.
She'll be an equal-opportunity grabber, taking from everybody and keeping everything for herself. She won't care what language you speak, as long as you fork over the cash.
Something for liberats to do:
each should learn at least 5 dead languages and preserve them and leave us alone.
E su Espanol.
Like Latin? Very likely, and esp. now with global communications and travel and interrmarriage, English will evolve into newer forms and meld with a few other languages. Life goes on.
ROTFL!
Great idea.
At the risk of sounding heartless, who cares really? If native speakers no longer find the language of any use, why would they bother to pass it along?
I haven’t noticed any drop in the quality of my life because I don’t know some paleolithic language spoken by my ancestors.
Good!
There is a language called “respectble English” that is threatened with extinction. It uses outdated terms such as “sir”, “ma’am”, and “please.” Fortunately, pockets the midwest and the south are still making an effort to introduce it to younger speakers. New recruits in the military are often give a crash course in this language using traditional linguistic instruction methods.
“You will address me as “sir” or I will put a boot up your...”
My paternal grandmother’s first language, though she was born in Colorado, was Welsh Gaelic (Great-grandpa Evans was a collier, a coal miner).
She did not teach it to her son, so my father never learned to speak it. She told him as an American he would only need English to succeed in the world.
We should designate English as the common human language and record all the rest on a stack of DVDs for future study of the half dozen people who really care.
I wonder if Pig Latin is offensive to Muslims?
OR that on a nominally Conservative website/forum, no one has expressed any concern or regret about that extinction, or shared thoughts on how it can be avoided and why it should.
English may morph into some other language (as Latin did). Latin could be considered an [almost] dead language, in in may ways, it is very much alive through its children languages.
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