Language revival expert calls for 'native tongue title' (fwd link)

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Language revival expert calls for 'native tongue title'

Fuseworks Media
Tuesday, 28 August, 2012 - 09:17

A world-renowned expert on language revival says the loss of language
is more damaging than the loss of land for indigenous peoples, and
governments are likely to come under increasing pressure to compensate
indigenous peoples for this loss too.

Professor Ghil’ad Zuckermann is Chair of Linguistics and Endangered
Languages at the University of Adelaide, and an authority on the
Hebrew revival movement, which turned an historical sacred language
into the national language of Israel with millions of native speakers,
including Professor Zuckermann himself.

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