The statement, according to statistical "certainty"<br><font><font face="georgia,serif">“Half of the 6,000
plus spoken languages today will disappear by the end of the
century.” </font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">of course, MIGHT be true. I also know from experience, you can have all the best and latest techniques available,<br>but the language remains comatose because true language revitalization is not considered IMPORTANT ENOUGH.<br>
<br>This week The Wyandotte Nation is holding a "Culture week" here in Oklahoma.<br>The WN Administration yearly flies two linguists down to do a language class for three hours(a year) so tribal members can go home <br>
with a nice little phrase or to "impress people at Walmart" as the Cultural Chairman expressed on the WN website . <br><br>Visiting tribal members will get just enough language to be inoculated against the dedicated WORK of any actual revitalization effort.<br>
It is not only discouraging its ridiculous. So engineers of colonization plans, can put another feather in their cap, laughing all the way.<br>this is getting so discouraging folks...makes me wonder at times if I'm just wasting my life ....till i hear kids singing in Wyandot<br>
the silly little songs I taught 'em in school....but its still discouraging.<br><br>-Richard <br><br><br>On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Lindsay Marean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lmarean@bensay.org" target="_blank">lmarean@bensay.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Did I misread this article? Did the
author really just write that the solution to language
endangerment abroad is for the United States to swoop in with
funding for Rosetta Stone products? I wonder how much awareness
the author has of the state of indigenous languages right here in
the good ol' US of A? <br>
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Good eye as always, Phil, for news of language
endangerment/revitalization in the media. Did this article catch
anyone else in their cranky shoes, or just me?<br>
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Lindsay<br>
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By Eddie Walsh<br>
September 2, 2012<br>
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According to UNESCO, “half of the 6,000 plus spoken languages
today will disappear by the end of the century” if the world
fails to take action to preserve endangered languages.<br>
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The situation in the Pacific is particularly troubling. The
Statistics section under the “Resources” tab of the Atlas of
the World’s Languages in Danger shows that well over a hundred
native languages are listed as vulnerable or endangered in
Pacific ACP (African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States)
countries. If one considers the larger Pacific Islands Forum
region, the number soars to several hundred, with 108
vulnerable and endangered languages in Australia alone.<br>
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Access full article below:<br>
<a href="http://thediplomat.com/sport-culture/2012/09/02/saving-endangered-pacific-languages/" target="_blank">http://thediplomat.com/sport-culture/2012/09/02/saving-endangered-pacific-languages/</a><br>
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again. "</span><font size="1"><span style="font-family:Georgia">Xh'unei
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