Search results
Jan 5, 2022 · The world’s language diversity is under threat as education and greater mobility change the way humans communicate. Research has found a link between higher levels of schooling and language loss, as regionally dominant languages taught in class often overshadow indigenous tongues.
Dec 16, 2021 · While language change and shift are natural processes of human cultural evolution, the loss of global language diversity has been massively accelerated by colonization and globalization....
Using a global analysis of 6,511 spoken languages with 51 predictor variables spanning aspects of population, documentation, legal recognition, education policy, socioeconomic indicators and environmental features, the authors identify predictors of current and future language endangerment and loss.
The assumption of a unique human language organ has cut off scientific discourse from the rest of biology and from the rest of psychology. The contributions of biology become effectively constrained to human neurobiology.
- What Identifies a Language as Endangered? More precisely, it is not a language itself that is endangered, but rather it is the continued use of the language that is under threat, and this can be due to various social, political, and other non-linguistics reasons.
- Causes, Consequences, and Issues of Language Endangerment. Language extinction is hardly recent. In addition to well-known cases, such as Etruscan, Hittite, Sumerian, Yana, the language spoken by Ishi (the famous last survivor of his tribe who died in 1916), hundreds of other languages have passed into history.
- Language Documentation. A brief review of the history of linguistic ideas shows that language documentation is among the oldest traditions (see Koerner & Asher, 1995 and Robins, 1997 for examples).
- Language Revitalization. Language revitalization is a general term covering all activities, projects, plans, or goals that aim to reverse language shift, the trend towards language loss.
Apr 27, 2020 · The world is facing a crisis of language loss that rivals, or exceeds, the rate of loss of biodiversity. There is an increasing urgency to understand the drivers of language change in order to try and stem the catastrophic rate of language loss globally and to improve language vitality.
People also ask
Is there a theory of language loss?
What factors contribute to language loss?
What is the rate of language loss?
What happens if a language is lost?
Why is language loss associated with biodiversity loss?
Feb 1, 2022 · We use an analysis of 6,511 spoken languages with 51 predictor variables spanning aspects of population, documentation, legal recognition, education policy, socioeconomic indicators and...
