Comments on: What you can do to help preserve the world’s endangered languages? http://matadornetwork.com/abroad/what-can-yo-do-to-help-preserve-the-worlds-endangered-language/ travel culture worldwide Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: YouTube Preserves Dying Languages http://matadornetwork.com/abroad/what-can-yo-do-to-help-preserve-the-worlds-endangered-language/#comment-40037 YouTube Preserves Dying Languages Thu, 28 Oct 2010 23:08:01 +0000 http://matadorabroad.com/?p=2929#comment-40037 [...] Sarah Menkedick wrote in What Can You Do To Help Preserve The World’s Endangered Languages?, over half of the world’s 7,000 languages will probably be “extinct” in 40 years. [...] [...] Sarah Menkedick wrote in What Can You Do To Help Preserve The World’s Endangered Languages?, over half of the world’s 7,000 languages will probably be “extinct” in 40 years. [...]

]]> By: The Global Voluntourist’s Bucket List http://matadornetwork.com/abroad/what-can-yo-do-to-help-preserve-the-worlds-endangered-language/#comment-38540 The Global Voluntourist’s Bucket List Thu, 27 May 2010 15:36:39 +0000 http://matadorabroad.com/?p=2929#comment-38540 [...] being lost, and then check out Matador Abroad and Glimpse Editor-in-Chief Sarah Menkedick’s article about ways you can help prevent language [...] [...] being lost, and then check out Matador Abroad and Glimpse Editor-in-Chief Sarah Menkedick’s article about ways you can help prevent language [...]

]]> By: Ana http://matadornetwork.com/abroad/what-can-yo-do-to-help-preserve-the-worlds-endangered-language/#comment-37618 Ana Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:10:51 +0000 http://matadorabroad.com/?p=2929#comment-37618 Very interesting,enjoyed reading this article. Very interesting,enjoyed reading this article.

]]> By: Eva http://matadornetwork.com/abroad/what-can-yo-do-to-help-preserve-the-worlds-endangered-language/#comment-36918 Eva Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:37:07 +0000 http://matadorabroad.com/?p=2929#comment-36918 I'm not sure the two are mutually exclusive - the endangered languages don't have to die in order for more people to learn to speak a common language. Particularly when we start young, the human capacity to handle multiple languages is pretty remarkable. I’m not sure the two are mutually exclusive – the endangered languages don’t have to die in order for more people to learn to speak a common language. Particularly when we start young, the human capacity to handle multiple languages is pretty remarkable.

]]> By: Tim Patterson http://matadornetwork.com/abroad/what-can-yo-do-to-help-preserve-the-worlds-endangered-language/#comment-36915 Tim Patterson Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:47:16 +0000 http://matadorabroad.com/?p=2929#comment-36915 Word. That line stood out for me, too. Word. That line stood out for me, too.

]]> By: Shelley http://matadornetwork.com/abroad/what-can-yo-do-to-help-preserve-the-worlds-endangered-language/#comment-36917 Shelley Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:16:16 +0000 http://matadorabroad.com/?p=2929#comment-36917 I don't want to sound culturally insensitive, and I know there are some complex issues to this topic - however, I can't help thinking that the benefits might outweigh the negatives. It seems to me that there are some benefits to attaining more common languages. With so many hundreds of thousands of dialects and languages used by so few on the planet - and I am not denigrating those few by any means - I can't help wondering if what is gained by people being able to communicate more in a common language makes up for the lost languages? I can't help but wonder how much the world could change for the better and cultures and people come together more in understanding, if there was more common language. I don’t want to sound culturally insensitive, and I know there are some complex issues to this topic – however, I can’t help thinking that the benefits might outweigh the negatives. It seems to me that there are some benefits to attaining more common languages. With so many hundreds of thousands of dialects and languages used by so few on the planet – and I am not denigrating those few by any means – I can’t help wondering if what is gained by people being able to communicate more in a common language makes up for the lost languages? I can’t help but wonder how much the world could change for the better and cultures and people come together more in understanding, if there was more common language.

]]> By: Michelle http://matadornetwork.com/abroad/what-can-yo-do-to-help-preserve-the-worlds-endangered-language/#comment-36914 Michelle Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:36:49 +0000 http://matadorabroad.com/?p=2929#comment-36914 "It isn’t simply the grammar or the literature or the idioms or stories that disappear, it’s also a vision – one more distinct human way of seeing and making sense of the world." Beautifully put, and so true. “It isn’t simply the grammar or the literature or the idioms or stories that disappear, it’s also a vision – one more distinct human way of seeing and making sense of the world.”

Beautifully put, and so true.

]]> By: Caitlin @ Roaming Tales http://matadornetwork.com/abroad/what-can-yo-do-to-help-preserve-the-worlds-endangered-language/#comment-36911 Caitlin @ Roaming Tales Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:15:48 +0000 http://matadorabroad.com/?p=2929#comment-36911 Interesting topic. I knew about this issue but I didn't realise the scale of it. Rich countries can throw money at the problem and keep languages alive, almost like a hobby. For example, the Welsh Government has been fairly successful at reviving Welsh. But this is not an option for smaller countries like Papua New Guinea, especially when they may have dozens of tribal languages all at equal risk. I wonder if the Australian Government is providing any assistance to save Australian Aboriginal languages. Interesting topic. I knew about this issue but I didn’t realise the scale of it. Rich countries can throw money at the problem and keep languages alive, almost like a hobby. For example, the Welsh Government has been fairly successful at reviving Welsh. But this is not an option for smaller countries like Papua New Guinea, especially when they may have dozens of tribal languages all at equal risk. I wonder if the Australian Government is providing any assistance to save Australian Aboriginal languages.

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