<div dir="ltr">Hi Anna,<div><br></div><div>I read your blog, it is really enlightening as you have pointed out and brought many aspects of language loss and its implication and touched upon many other aspects pertaining to endangered languages. I think there is little argument over the fact that languages and cultures are dying almost every day in the name of modernization. We, Dr Reyhner and I have published some articles related to endangered languages and cultures, what we have called cultural genocide (Reyhner & Singh, 2010). I also have discussed these issues in my books (Singh, 2012, 2013).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Let me share with you that in 2010, March the Guardian published a report of linguists and archaeologist who found that a Language became extinct in Andaman Nicobar Islands of India with a death of its last speaker, Boa Sir, that existed 65000 years old.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So loss of language and culture are a great loss for humanity.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your such an amazing blog.</div><div><br></div><div>With best regards,</div><div>Navin Kumar Singh, EdD</div>
<div>Independent Scholar </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Anna Luisa Daigneault <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:annaluisa@livingtongues.org" target="_blank">annaluisa@livingtongues.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Dear ILAT group,<br><br></div>In honor of International Mother Language Day today, I wrote this blog piece. Feedback is welcome.<br>
<br><a href="http://livingtongues.wordpress.com/2014/02/21/top-10-things-you-need-to-know-about-endangered-languages/" target="_blank">http://livingtongues.wordpress.com/2014/02/21/top-10-things-you-need-to-know-about-endangered-languages/</a><br>
<br></div>best wishes,<br></div>Anna<br><div><div><div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(53,28,117)"><b>Anna Luisa Daigneault, M.Sc</b></span><br><font color="#888888">Development Officer & Latin America Projects Coordinator </font><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><br>
<span style="color:rgb(180,167,214)"><a href="http://www.livingtongues.org/" target="_blank">Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages</a><br></span></span><span style="color:rgb(180,167,214)"><a href="https://twitter.com/livingtongues" target="_blank">Twitter</a> | <a href="http://livingtongues.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Blog</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/living.tongues" target="_blank">Facebook</a></span><br>
</div><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"></span><div><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><br>Archivo Digital de la Memoria Yanesha | Arr Añño'tena Poeñotenaxhno Yanesha<br><a href="http://www.yanesha.com" target="_blank">www.yanesha.com</a></span><font color="#888888"><br>
<br><br></font></div></div></div>
</div></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#3366ff" face="Times New Roman" size="3">------------------------------------------------------</font></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#3366ff" face="Times New Roman" size="3">Navin Kumar Singh, EdD<br></font></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#3366ff" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#3366ff" face="Times New Roman" size="3">Curriculum and Instruction (Applied Linguistics</font><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#3366ff" face="Times New Roman" size="3">)<br>
</font></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#3366ff" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font></div>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#3366ff" face="Times New Roman" size="3">Phone: 928-221-<font size="3">4596<font size="3"><font size="3"><font size="3"></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p> </p></div>
</div>