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L O W L A N D S - L - 15 July 2011 - Volume 02<br>
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</div><font size="2">From: <span><span style="color:rgb(91, 16, 148)"></span></span></font><span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color:#5b1094">Pat Barrett</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:pbarrett@cox.net">pbarrett@cox.net</a></span></span><font size="2"><br>
Subject: </font><span class="gI">LL-L "Language politics" 2011.07.14 (01) [EN]</span><br><br><div><font size="2">It's difficult to grasp sometimes why, with all the
introductory textbooks on linguistics, that people still think language can be
controlled through "language policies". What possible incentive does a Gaelic or
a Navaho speaker have for maintaining his language? For those of us who love
languages, it is very sad, but it's just the way languages have always worked.
It's like fighting against language change, of which language death is simply a
natural extension.</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Let's record these languages, incl all the variants
of the Lowlands languages, before they are swallowed up by bigger languages.
I'll bet you can find a dialect of one language that was swallowed up by another
dialect of the same language group which is itself considered an endangered
minority language. </font></div>
<div><font size="2">Pat Barrett<br><br></font></div><div style="text-align:center">
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