language death detail presentation and points

Language Death

1. Language Death

2. LANGUAGE DEATH & SHIFT

Differences between language shift and
language death:

=Language Shift: This is a process in which one
language displaces another in the linguistic
repertoire of a community.

=Language Death: This is a process that occurs
when a language is no longer spoken naturally
anywhere in the world.

3. UNESCO

“As the disappearance of any one language constitutes an irretrievable
loss to mankind, it is for UNESCO a task of great urgency to respond to
this situation by promoting and, if possible, sponsoring programs of
linguistic organizations for the description in the form of grammars,
dictionaries and texts, including the recording of oral literatures, of
hitherto unstudied or inadequately documented endangered and dying
languages.”

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/endangered-languages/

4. LANGUAGE LOSS

= Factors leading to language loss

e Death of speakers
e Social

e Cultural

e Economic

e Political

5. POTENTIALLY ENDANGERED

= Socially and economically disadvantaged
= Under heavy pressure from a larger language
= Beginning to lose child speakers

6. = Few or no children learning the language
= The youngest good speakers are young adults.

7. =Seriously
endangered

=Moribund

sExtinct

“The youngest good
speakers age 50
or older

e Only a handful of
good speakers

e No speaker

8. LANGUAGE LOSS

= Factors leading to language loss

e Death of speakers
e Social

e Cultural

e Economic

e Political

9. DEATH OF SPEAKERS

= Natural disasters
= Starvation

= Diseases

= Genocides

10. SOCIAL FACTORS

= Young men moving to urban center
= Intermarriage
= Aging population in the community

11. CULTURAL FACTORS

= Cultural contact affects ianguage attiiude

= Culturally more aggressive dominant language
| Religion
‘| Modern metropolitan culture
」 Technology

12. ECONOMIC FACTORS

= associated with dominant language

| Job opportunity
| Material wealth

13. POLITICAL FACTORS

= Political influences

= Conquest

= Language policy: official language
= Recommendations and laws

= Assimilatory education

14. LANGUAGE SHIFT

Language shift
= Forced language shift

= Voluntary language shift

15. WHY SHOULD WE CARE?

= Loss of a language is a loss of a culture

“Every language reflects a unique
world-view and culture complex”
(Wurm 1991)

= Any other reasons?

16. INCENTIVES TO SPEAK INDIGENOUS

LANGUAGES

= Secret language that their oppressors cannot speak
= Rallying symbol of a political and/or cultural
movement

= Self- and Group identity

= Any other incentives?

17. PREVENTING LANGUAGE LOSS

=Documentation and archivization
=Intergenerational transmission
=Vernacularization

=Changing the society

18. =Documentation and archivization

19. WHAT IS A DIGITAL LANGUAGE ARCHIVE?

= a forum / platform for data providers and data users
to negotiate and exchange

= a trusted repository created and maintained by an
institution with a commitment to the long-term
preservation of archived material

= has policies and processes for materials acquisition,
cataloguing, preservation, dissemination, migration to
new digital formats

= a collection of managed materials