U. conference addresses endangered languages (fwd link)

[phil cash cash]

Thanks Rolland!
Phil
Quoting Rolland Nadjiwon :

> Phil...I think it is really great how you keep us informed on these
> kinds of issues. You have been doing so for some time now and I wanted
> to express my thanks for information which might not otherwise be at my
> disposal. Keep up the good work and thank you....
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> phil cash cash wrote:
>> U. conference addresses endangered languages
>>
>> By Wendy Leonard
>> Deseret News
>> Published: Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009 4:43 p.m. MST
>> USA
>>
>> In a world where more than 7,000 languages are spoken, it's hard to imagine
>> everyone speaking the same tongue – or one of only four.
>>
>> In the last 500 years, half of the world's languages have become 
>> extinct. It is
>> predicted that in the next 100 years, nearly 50 percent of the 
>> world's current
>> languages will follow suit, much like Kuku Thaypan, an Australian Aboriginal
>> language in which only one man now is fluent."It's an unspeakable tragedy,"
>> said Lyle Campbell, a University of Utah linguistics professor and 
>> director of
>> the U.'s Center for American Indian Languages. He said that of the 
>> 151 American
>> Indian languages spoken in America today, only 20 of them are being 
>> taught to
>> children, which means that much of the knowledge originated in those 
>> languages
>> could be lost with the extinction of various tongues. In Utah, the Shoshone
>> language has great possibility of becoming extinct, because only the senior
>> population speaks it.
>>
>> Access full article below:
>>
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705344021/U-conference-addresses-endangered-languages.html
>>
>>


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