My grandfather was part of that 1990s Cornish revival, translating most of the Bible into Cornish and running a learning course from his home office, first using snail mail and cassette tapes and then online. You would be sent a cassette tape and a lesson, record yourself speaking onto the cassette, mail it back and he would mark it and send it back to you! As a young child I remember the many hours he spent making Crosswords for the cornish language magazine, and pouring over compendiums and dictionaries trying to find the best word for what he needed. Nothing but perfection would suffice. At his funeral, his sending off was also in Cornish. Thank you Tedx for unexpecedly reminding me of someone I loved so dearly.

@Anna-tj7mp

4 жыл бұрын

We celebrate your grandfather!!

@HN-kr1nf

4 жыл бұрын

did you also learn cornish? would you say it is a hard or easy language to learn?

@Ravenesque

4 жыл бұрын

@@HN-kr1nf n Unfortunately not, my grandfather taught me French instead. Cornish was his hobby language. Myself, i have some knowledge other celtic languages and they are beautiful in cadence and baffling in grammar

@Ravenesque

4 жыл бұрын

@@Anna-tj7mp thank you so much! I treasure the memories I have of him :) I remember he did Levictus through glaucoma. My grandmother was his scribe.

@benjeyemanp1742

2 жыл бұрын

Huge respect to your grandpa committing his time to reviving one of the remaining Celtic languages. Kernow bys vykken!

I never knew that Hebrew was effectively abandoned up until so recently. I just assumed it had stuck around and never had an appreciation for the effort made to revive it. Kudos for sharing this presentation!

@OverdaleRd

4 жыл бұрын

Biblical Hebrew has existed since Hebrew was first created. But it was treated like Latin, where only the highly educated and the religious authority knew how to speak and write it. The Hebrew that's spoken today is derived from this (same alphabet and phonetic system), but many words and pronunciations have changed, added, or subtracted.

@RS-nq4pe

Жыл бұрын

@@OverdaleRd Not entirely. It wasn’t just the elite who knew it. Effectively all Jewish men (or at least most) were able to at least read it, as they needed to in order to be bar mitzvah’d. It was also used as a sort of lingua franca between Jewish groups for centuries. Not to mention a lot of literature had been written in Hebrew over the years. And then also, modern Hebrew kept a lot more than just the phonetics and alphabet. It is the same language, just modernized. A modern Hebrew speaker would be able to read and understand most of the Torah Judaism also doesn’t have a “religious authority.” There are rabbis, but most of the time those are more like religious community leaders. The really great rabbis become more universally appreciated scholars. But they aren’t by nature an authority on the religion. They are only an authority in the sense that we respect their rulings due to their knowledge and wisdom. The last time we had a real religious authority was 70 CE. We had a temple in Jerusalem and a priesthood led by the High Priest. However the Romans destroyed that and ended it all

Beatha teanga í a labhairt - A language is alive as long as it is spoken. Irish people were stripped of their language, culture and customs by the English. We need to make sure we keep it alive. Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam.

I always thought Silbo was a pretty cool language. I would like to learn that. I also thought it was pretty cool how some WW2 soldiers learned how to speak Navajo so the enemy spies couldn’t understand what we were saying. Those are some languages I think are worth saving because of their uniqueness and historical importance, not to belittle any other language. That’s just what I know about.

It doesn't help when a State is actively trying to kill a language. In my country (New Zealand) successive govts spent decades trying to kill off indigenous Maori language. Despite signing a treaty saying they'll protect what indigenous people decide is valuable to them (obviously that included language). Now, because of that 180 year old treaty the NZ State is having to invest $$ into reviving, rebuilding and maintaining Maori language via education, media and legislative/bureaucratic support. Would've been simpler and cheaper if they hadn't interfered in the first place and honored the treaty they signed.

@dallysinghson5569

Жыл бұрын

They're notnthensame people and are seperate by generations

I just got a book from my library last week called "Two Worlds: Lost Children of the the Indian Adoption Project." My great grandmother is Pottawatomie descended. She married another native and had 14 children but the problem is that she had been forced at the age of 7 to stop speaking her native tongue. She barely remembered her own parents. My grandmother was effected by this assimilation too. She was forced to go to catholic boring schools. There they were not allowed to speak anything other than English and were heavily abused by the Nun teachers. I'm only a quarter by blood but its still part of my family. I tried to learn the lost language but boy are Algonquian languages hard to learn.

What about a dialect? A lot of dialects in China have no written forms so how do we preserve them?

@Miranox2

4 жыл бұрын

"Game over. You lose." - Jigsaw

@biggus6633

4 жыл бұрын

Abigail Zhou Dialect is kept within small groups of similar people. So keep foreigners away and that’s how you’ll preserve diversity. Believe it or not but globalization, mixing diversities, interracial relationships and mixing cultures is what’s killing what makes groups of people unique. If you want to preserve diversity, people should stay with their group.

@agme8045

4 жыл бұрын

Big Gus thats stupid, diversity can coexist with globalization, the problem comes when some people are closed minded and don’t accept others cultures. Why can’t a black man from nigeria marry a white irish woman? If they love each other then there shouldn’t be any problem, they can still preserve their cultures, and pass it down to their children, and diversity wont extinguish because people “mix” with other cultures, they’ll just learn new things and ways of living but keep their origins.

@agme8045

4 жыл бұрын

Abigail Zhou well, you could adapt mandarin writing to accommodate your dialect, or even start using pinyin in daily basis, basically adapt your dialect to the Latin alphabet

@KuZiMeiChuan

4 жыл бұрын

They will be preserved through KZread videos. Future linguists will scour KZread to find all videos containing dialog in a given dialect.

Fellow Irish people, we can learn a lot from this

@BarerRudeROC

4 жыл бұрын

Join or start your local Pop-up Gaeltacht! Tá sé chomh iontach, tá an-sásta orm le mo dhul chun cinn i nGaeilge.

@blueponypics2931

4 жыл бұрын

I learnt Irish Gaelic bcz thats what my family does we keep the lyric

@ireaut9322

4 жыл бұрын

You reminded me to finally start on learning irish

@jaeceed.malone1739

4 жыл бұрын

Still trying to learn Gaelic, any helpful ressources or tips?

@haltdieklappe7972

3 жыл бұрын

I’m in the same boat but for Scottish Gaelic

How beautiful and hopeful. My ancestors spoke Scottish Gaelic and Yiddish. I am proud that one of my ancestors translated the Iliad into Gaelic in the 19th century, how about that? Language is freedom, it is resistance.

@franciscusmagister

2 жыл бұрын

what is the first line of the Iliad in Scottish Gaelic?

The threat of languages going extinct has been really stressing me out as of late, not really sure why. I was talking to my grandmother about how she grew up speaking Yiddish but never passed it down to my mom, and I'm tempted to ask her to help me start picking it up.

@Anna-tj7mp

4 жыл бұрын

Start, Nikolai! And btw I really recommend a series called "Shtisel", mostly Yiddish with subtitles of course, on Netflix. It is about a hassidic family in Jerusalem, moving, tender and funny.

@RS-nq4pe

Жыл бұрын

Do it. My grandparents never learned from their parents and so there is no one to pass it down to me.

I'm a Bengali speaking guy. Today I really feel proud with my language! 🇧🇩🇧🇩

@fatrooster4632

2 жыл бұрын

Bengalis should be example to whole world on how people should love their mother language! Bengalis loved their mother language so much that they fought Pakistan government with courage to keep their language safe. It is because of the courage and loyalty of Bengalis to their language that International Mother-Tongue day was created by United Nations

@muhammadisaac07

2 жыл бұрын

@@fatrooster4632 Thank you so much, sir 🥰🥰

@dallysinghson5569

Жыл бұрын

How are Bengalis different from Pakistanis?

@alfiemandella2258

9 ай бұрын

@@fatrooster4632 then why are you guys using English in Bangladesh why can't you use Bengali in every jobs place .

@noahjohnson5312

4 ай бұрын

you mean the language with the really good looking written form right?

Merci, Daniel! J’sais pas si je t’ai déjà dit mais j’apprécie la mention du Tunica-Biloxi. Moi, j’parle français louisianais et créole louisianais (mes langues d’héritage) avec mon petit fils mais je pense que c’est vraiment triste que toutes ces langues indigènes sont en danger. Donna a fait tellement pour revitaliser la langue Tunica-Biloxi et c’est très bon de voir plein d’autres communautés en faisant la même chose avec leurs langues!

It is sad that language disappears. But I still think it is inevitable to preserve all languages ​​in the future as the world changes but only time will tell.

You are a nice man working for a nice cause. God bless you my friend.

My language is Iñupiat. I follow many social media pages that help encourage me to keep the language in my home

Beautiful. I'm actually in a venetist group and we're trying to revive Venetian in its purest forms, not touched by Italian. it will be a difficult project, but I hope I can save my culture! "La lengua l'é el fondamento de na cultura e sensa cultura no semo gnisun."

@Kurdedunaysiri

Жыл бұрын

Very nice to know that still someone is standing

This man has raised a very important issue which is much more in the post-colonial states like SOUTHEAST ASIA(I’m from PUNJAB,PAKISTAN) and here one of the most simple ways to get detention in schools is by speaking our mother language Punjabi and schools (and sadly parents as well)are forcing us to speak English cuz it’s cool ,impressive and pretty modern and the hard truth is COLONIAL MINDSET hasn’t really left though the ENGLISH have and this is taking a huge toll on culture and ancestral values which is so horrible and resultantly the new generation (of which I am a part of as well) knows or speaks neither languages eloquently and fluently (though I’m trying)So Make this your 2020 resolution that " I am going to learn my mother tongue fluently " Also if anybody knows any good Punjabi space please share so that Punjabi Renaissance will happen!!...

@tagorewithlyric4394

4 жыл бұрын

Bengali from Kolkata... Very relatable buddy. I r would have written something to this effect myself if I didn't find your comment.

@dallysinghson5569

Жыл бұрын

You being forced to speak English? Where? Job? Schools?

@xxxcxxcx

10 ай бұрын

i'm a 3rd generaion half-punjabi (pakistani) from canada and i'm proud to say i am learning urdu on my own and my cousins and sister and going to start urdu camp tomorrow, after which i will learn punjabi and i have successfullly encouraged my cousins and sister to learn punjabi, we're very enthusiastic about it :) we understand the value of knowing the languages of your grandparents and the languages of your culture, and i will try to pass this down to my children as well 🫶🏼🫶🏼

I throughly enjoyed your presentation Daniel Bogre Udell. Keep up the good work at Wikitongues.

I'm Silesian and I learnt my ancestral language basically from scratch. The revival of our culture is slowly beginning

Could anyone recommend any books about this topic?

Reminds me of the recent baybayin (ancient Filipino script) trend here in the Philippines 😁

@UnknowinglyDerpy

4 жыл бұрын

One of my recent seatworks in University was to transcribe Lupang Hinirang in Baybayin. Since I'm majoring in IT right now, i have a little project on the side where i'm trying to turn baybayin into a usable font for Filipino on computers

@dzikrinasaira3475

4 жыл бұрын

Wow that's so cool :)

@boba4bobaman294

4 жыл бұрын

Do you have anywhere I can learn it? Kasi, ayaw yung mga nanay at tatay ko ng teach me their regional dialects

@yourmissingc0ckring759

2 жыл бұрын

I don't wanna learn Baybayin, as an Ilocano-Pangasinense

@fatrooster4632

2 жыл бұрын

@@yourmissingc0ckring759 Your people might have had their own writing before spanish, try researching it

Hello from Venice! Sciao da Venezia. I hope that one day the Italian government will recognize my mother tongue as a language and start teaching to people. Mi spero che un dì el governo talian el reconossarà el Veneto come lengoa menoredaria e che El scominsiarà a ensegnarla a la zente. Fortunately, there are many websites in Venetian, including Wikipedia and people are starting to put up signs in our language. Par fortuna, ancuo ghe xe pagine web in Veneto, come Wikipedia, e le persone le xe drio scominsiar a meter carteli ne la nostra lengoa.

Salish school of Spokane It’s growing

Those people who are wishing for just one language may also be wishing for just one skin "color" or one flavor of ice cream or one kind of house or one way to build a bridge or one kind of horse or dog or one style and color for dress clothes or one way to knit or one kind of fast food restaurant or one...…… Sure would be a boring homogenous world. Plus, where would most of our English language words come from????

hi, im trying to document n speak mikmaq as much as i know too. we losing out language fast. we have immersion in school but still the kids need to hear it on their phones. tablets. basic everyday routine phrases n words they need to speak n understand. thanks hopefully in 50 years we still have some mikmaq speakers.

Beautiful. I am Lithuanian and we are around 3million. And Lithuanian is one of the oldest European languages, but many people go and stay abroad, so there is possibility that through time it might disappear.

@Shadowstray

4 жыл бұрын

Let's hope so. As a speaker, I know how useless it is :)

I'm interested in working to revitalize endangered languages, does anybody have any suggestions for opportunities to pursue?

@kongbanana8947

6 ай бұрын

Wdym ? Methods to preserve language or languages that should be preserved ?

The Essex dialect is still alive and kicking through TOWIE

@artscrafts4685

4 жыл бұрын

JDOE and the whole of London unfortunately 😂

I have aromanian/vlach ancestry and I really want to learn this langauge!!!

How do i like this video a million times???????

After watching this video, I found it important for educational institutions to make more minor language classes more for the better. I hope the governments from all over the world embark upon teaching languages going extinct.

there's an typo in the korean subtitle 히브루어 ->히브리어

on my mother's side, i am of mostly mennonite ancestry and our lagnauge of heritage is low german/plautdietsch. in a few weeks time, i will stay at my grandmother's place and i plan on talking to her about low german. on my father's side, i am a 3rd-generation punjabi from pakistan, our ancestral languages are urdu and punjabi. my sister and i are learning urdu, and my cousins (and sister) start urdu camp tomorrow. once i'm confident enough with my urdu, i'll definitely start picking up punjabi, as will my cousin and probably my sister too. i'm very proud of my heritage and languages, I hope everyone who speaks another language at home or speaks a dialect of their language will preserve it and pass it on to their children :) love from canada!

@kongbanana8947

6 ай бұрын

American ?

@xxxcxxcx

6 ай бұрын

@@kongbanana8947 canadian! 🫶

very good information...... helped in our gp project

Is this considered a primary source??

Ask Wales!

Darn, I wish I knew what those memes said. I suppose the audience members could read Cornish or Tunica. (Or maybe they were captioned for them, but I didn't see any translation.)

yes!! this is exactly why I am working on my app comuno.org it's a language practicing platform for all languages

preach this alot of people from different countries who live in american need to see this! practice ur native tougue teach it to your kids and grandkids! next thing u know we lose what makes us special and we’ll just be like american white people. . 100 generations later and jewish people retaught themselves their native tougue and some of yall so lazy cant be bothered to teach ur kids spanish or urdu or bangali or whatever language u come from. shame on u. there’s beauty in our differences and our heritage. keep it together yall!

@fatrooster4632

2 жыл бұрын

You are completely correct sir!! 👍👍👍

3:32 *uses memes so dead that (insert dead meme here)* Adults in audience: XD

Yes ,It's a nice mean 'We are here' Don't persist only their language accept and share viriety things~! we have to respect another Language and culture too!

A proud telugu❤ Iam proud of my mother tongue

I'm afraid that Philippine languages are on the brink of extinction as well since a lot of people here prefer to speak in English (and some want to speak in Spanish because of some reason).

I wanna revive Scottish Gaelic

@yourmissingc0ckring759

2 жыл бұрын

Same...in the Northern Philippines.....

The Chinese Communists try to get rid of Cantonese in Hong Kong. That is disgraceful !

U want an example. Kurdish people are not allowed to teach their language at government schools.

Great

Tha mi Albannach-Ameireaganach. Tha Gàedhlig agam.

@angelinabrown2931

4 жыл бұрын

@Wired Wonky Scottish Gaelic. Albannach is Gaelic for Scottish.

My ancestral language is English. That's why I installed a futhorc keyboard.

I think i beat all of you at this native language thing, Ancient Pontic greek, yes 3.000 year old both my parents speak it

nice

Languages definitely should be preserved for historical purposes but teaching dead/dying languages to children as their new mother tongue seems like a move backwards in this modern age.

@odolwa099

4 жыл бұрын

If we're living in a modern age, then it should be all the easier.

@rws531

4 жыл бұрын

Odolwa Aztec creating a language barrier due to using some antiquated/unpopular language which likely doesn’t have an automatic translation in-browser does not seem easier than using a common modern language.

@odolwa099

4 жыл бұрын

@@rws531 Is there a barrier to using a computer if I didn't program it?

@torimcconnell3204

4 жыл бұрын

rws531 your thinking is much too linear

Never give in

Okay now I know how to. I only wish to know why to :P

@fatrooster4632

2 жыл бұрын

A language is the root of a culture. It is our mother, it is our life, our blood, our kin, our ancestors, our descendants. Its words represent our thoughts, minds, and souls. With the death of a language, comes the death of a culture. The descendants can no longer read or understand their ancestors. They lose an unbroken tradition their people possessed for thousands of years. They lose a unique form of expressing themselves and viewing the world. They lose all those words for love, all those unique late-night conversations with friends, those lullabies gently sung to babies, those everyday thoughts in so many peoples' minds. The death of a language is not the death of just one simple thing. It is the cultural death of thousands of people. And it is one of the saddest deaths in the world. Everything is said to die, but language and culture was always meant to be eternal and timeless.

Not all languages are created equal. I have NO issue with some of them going extinct. What good does it do to preserve a language that can barely describe the world we live in? The resources that are used to preserve ancestral languages should be used to better teach grammar and proper semantics of current languages to the younger generations.

Yes, it is a great idea for the good of human communication that we all just speak completely fucking different kinds of forgotten gibberish in order to not understand each other. Y'know, because of nonsense pride that leads to increased conflict and overhead when trying to solve problems. Thank you Daniel for showing this solution to a non-issue.

@fatrooster4632

2 жыл бұрын

You do not communicate with the vast majority of people, and will never need to communicate with them. The only time you likely will is for academics or business, in which case, an auxiliary language can be used. A language is the root of a culture. It is our mother, it is our life, our blood, our kin, our ancestors, our descendants. Its words represent our thoughts, minds, and souls. With the death of a language, comes the death of a culture. The descendants can no longer read or understand their ancestors. They lose an unbroken tradition their people possessed for thousands of years. They lose a unique form of expressing themselves and viewing the world. They lose all those words for love, all those unique late-night conversations with friends, those lullabies gently sung to babies, those everyday thoughts in so many peoples' minds. The death of a language is not the death of just one simple thing. It is the cultural death of thousands of people. And it is one of the saddest deaths in the world. Everything is said to die, but language and culture was always meant to be eternal and timeless.

I like cornsh hens!!

too short to explain this tricky issue

Tamil

Kernow 🏴🏳️

Do we really need that many of them? Most of those dated and archaic if not ancient? What is the reason?

@odolwa099

4 жыл бұрын

With that attitude, why do anything.

@dansshade5621

4 жыл бұрын

@@odolwa099 any better reason?

@skinnymalinkylonglegs7445

4 жыл бұрын

@@dansshade5621 There's quite a lot of evidence to suggest that the language we speak largely forms how we think. When we lose languages, we're losing different ways of thinking. You can experience this personally if you can speak more than one language. Different languages also describe different things so we may lose nuanced meanings that don't exist in other languages. Often native languages have a breadth of ways to describe native crafts for instance. If we lose the language, we can no longer describe the craft sufficiently. Some languages are more utilitarian, some are more emotive and some are vague. As long as they communicate, they're worth keeping.

@dansshade5621

4 жыл бұрын

@@skinnymalinkylonglegs7445 valid point. But ain't majority of those 'endangered' languages represent archaic ways of thinking related to archaic ways of life and occupations? Languages must constantly evolve to reflect changes in societies, and as part of this evolution, sometimes become obsolete. And preserving the obsoleted languages seems to be a little odd.

@odolwa099

4 жыл бұрын

@@dansshade5621 English is a mishmash of Nordic, Irish, Flemish, Greek, Roman, French, German, Swahili and American words and terms. Language gives you more to say, not less.

Or look at the other way around: if we move more toward one unified language and culture there will be no more cultural wars and a far more efficient society where everyone can communicate with everyone without cultural differences interfering in the communication. There's always two sides to a story.

@vikz5786

4 жыл бұрын

It'll likely be boring af too.

@SyntheticFuture

4 жыл бұрын

@@vikz5786 because? Cultural differences and war are the only thing that prevent life from being boring ?

@vikz5786

4 жыл бұрын

@@SyntheticFuture because language and cultural differences are an expression of human diversity. Diversity fuels innovation. Innovation = progress. Lots of people believe globalisation will create one unifying language. Maybe. IMO globalisation is fragmenting culture and language and creating new ways of looking at the world. Efficiency matters but it isn't necessarily producing a better world, just more waste. Culture wars exist because of our humanity, not in rejection of it.

Hebrew language is not the ancestral language of Jews but of Hebrews.

Splann!!!! Kernow ov vy, na Sawsen. Kernow bys vykken

The question isn't 'how' so save a language, but 'why' and 'which ones'. Just keep 5 and ditch the rest, get those language barriers out

@odolwa099

4 жыл бұрын

Enough with this globalist nonsense. Multiple nations the world over are bilingual in English and their native tongue. It's not an either/or scenario!

@jorinator123

4 жыл бұрын

@@odolwa099 I've been to a couple of those bilingual countries (Egypt, France, Netherlands,..) and a good portion of the ppl I talked to spoke decent english. Sadly there were many many ppl whose english is barely understandable because their native tongue/pronunciation is so different. Try some computer or data-science tutorials on youtube for example

@fatrooster4632

2 жыл бұрын

You do not communicate with the vast majority of people, and will never need to communicate with them. The only time you likely will is for academics or business, in which case, an auxiliary language can be used. A language is the root of a culture. It is our mother, it is our life, our blood, our kin, our ancestors, our descendants. Its words represent our thoughts, minds, and souls. With the death of a language, comes the death of a culture. The descendants can no longer read or understand their ancestors. They lose an unbroken tradition their people possessed for thousands of years. They lose a unique form of expressing themselves and viewing the world. They lose all those words for love, all those unique late-night conversations with friends, those lullabies gently sung to babies, those everyday thoughts in so many peoples' minds. The death of a language is not the death of just one simple thing. It is the cultural death of thousands of people. And it is one of the saddest deaths in the world. Everything is said to die, but language and culture was always meant to be eternal and timeless.

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But why???

@fatrooster4632

2 жыл бұрын

A language is the root of a culture. It is our mother, it is our life, our blood, our kin, our ancestors, our descendants. Its words represent our thoughts, minds, and souls. With the death of a language, comes the death of a culture. The descendants can no longer read or understand their ancestors. They lose an unbroken tradition their people possessed for thousands of years. They lose a unique form of expressing themselves and viewing the world. They lose all those words for love, all those unique late-night conversations with friends, those lullabies gently sung to babies, those everyday thoughts in so many peoples' minds. The death of a language is not the death of just one simple thing. It is the cultural death of thousands of people. And it is one of the saddest deaths in the world. Everything is said to die, but language and culture was always meant to be eternal and timeless.

Romanian

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Kernow ov vy!.. I am Cornish.. thanks for the heads up!.. Cornish did not die.. Cornwall is NOT a part of England, Cornwall is officially a Duchy and has never officially or formerly through political act or war become part of England...web.archive.org/web/20120603020002/www.duchyofcornwall.eu/

It's too one sided. As a swede, most of us are happily assimilating into globalism and speak like 5% english (and growing) in daily language. Trying to hold on to swedish would be seen as backwards and perhaps a bit racist.

@freesiu

4 жыл бұрын

I got shivers reading that. You got no self-respect...

@torimcconnell3204

4 жыл бұрын

Alianger lol, not wanting to learn English would be... racist.... against English speakers? that's a first😂

@Alianger

4 жыл бұрын

@@torimcconnell3204 Well, just trying to hold on to anything swedish in general tends to be looked down upon

@maths23

Жыл бұрын

In what way ? Human beings are multi dimensional.

While these things may sound good and romantic, there are several problems. First off these attempts to revive a culture can never do so. They are only creating caricatures of the original culture, especially older cultures like the native American and Cornish cultures he mentions. One may as well try to restore the ancient cultures of the hunter gatherer peoples that existed before the advent of agriculture. Additionally, the idea is inherently divisive, in a time when we should be trying to unify the peoples of the planet. I am not saying that we should not try to save and remember what parts of these cultures we can, but to try and revive them is an exercise in folly. He is extolling the revival of the ancient Jewish culture, but what has that done when looked at as a practical matter. What good has come out of the reestablishment of Israel compared to the harm that has come from it? As for languages dying, they do die a natural death through change over time. Old English is totally comprehensible to a modern English speaker. The Middle English of Chaucer's time is only slightly more understandable. Two or three centuries from now, how much of the English spoken in the future will be recognizable? Cultures are equally mutable over time. To speak of a culture is meaningless without the time stamp of when you are talking about that culture. Also cultures are not homogeneous over large areas. We speak of a European culture or American Culture or Chinese culture, but none of those is a single all encompassing entity at any one period of time or location.

@tagorewithlyric4394

4 жыл бұрын

Good points, eloquently put... But we should make sure that languages that die away do just that - die as opposed to going extinct. A language should still remain accessible to the academic even when no one actively speaks it on a regular basis.

@torimcconnell3204

4 жыл бұрын

Gerard Trigo i can tell you right now that as a Native person, we are not creating caricatures of our own cultures. That is a preposterous and painfully ignorant claim you are making. It is entirely possible to be a modern Native person... Just because we don't all live exactly like we used to pre-contact doesn't mean that we still dont hold core values of Native culture... In my community, the cultural knowledge has always been with us -- we just couldn't express it publicly because of state-sanctioned genocide and legislation that banned Native religious freedom. America tried to erase us because it wanted our land. Elders held on to the values they had learned, and passed it on. When we say "revitalization", we're talking about finally being able to express our cultures without legal persecution and fear of massacre. Remember, America is a young country. My people weren't first contacted until the California Gold Rush. I learn my ancestral languages because it's intellectually nourishing, and even more importantly it helps me see the world in a different, beautiful way.

@fatrooster4632

2 жыл бұрын

Language does not divide people. You do not communicate with the vast majority of people, and will never need to communicate with them, thus, unifying language is not needed at all. The only time you likely will is for academics or business, in which case, an auxiliary language can be used. A language is the root of a culture. It is our mother, it is our life, our blood, our kin, our ancestors, our descendants. Its words represent our thoughts, minds, and souls. With the death of a language, comes the death of a culture. The descendants can no longer read or understand their ancestors. They lose an unbroken tradition their people possessed for thousands of years. They lose a unique form of expressing themselves and viewing the world. They lose all those words for love, all those unique late-night conversations with friends, those lullabies gently sung to babies, those everyday thoughts in so many peoples' minds. The death of a language is not the death of just one simple thing. It is the cultural death of thousands of people. And it is one of the saddest deaths in the world. Everything is said to die, but language and culture was always meant to be eternal and timeless.

@gerardtrigo380

2 жыл бұрын

@@fatrooster4632 I would disagree. How do you lose your past? Surely in today’s world, the essence of your culture, it’s stories and its heart will be transferred to other languages. Having said that your argument assumes that the entirety of your culture and language is worth saving and perpetuating. For example, I doubt you will find anyone who laments the loss of bloody religious practices of the ancient Inca, Maya, and Aztec people. While we lament the loss of knowledge about the details of those practices, no one laments the loss of their practices and the culture that gave birth to them. Your argument also makes the assumption that cultures and language are static, when in fact cultures and languages are in a constant state of flux. You will not find a single culture or language in the world that is the same as it was a decade ago, much less a century or more ago. Your argument is therefore invalid and meaningless in the face of these observable facts.!

@fatrooster4632

2 жыл бұрын

@@gerardtrigo380 "no one laments the loss of the culture that gave birth to them." Have you ever fucking talked to a native mexican or Peruvian? That's some ignorant white man talk

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Spoken languages reveal the true history of mankind just as written languages are full of attempts to redact the truth. VvvvvV Torahs are written on erasable vellum and wear out in 3 or 4 years. A scribe is a metal stylus used to erase ink script from a scroll. This was learned in a synagogue... VvvvvV. VVVVVV VVVVVV

Bullshit. I am a citizen of Russia, but I am not a Slav. My nationality belongs to many of the peoples living in my country, but I do not know my native language. We can say that the state is to blame for this (since in Russia there is only one official language), but no. Parents are to blame for this, they only cursed among themselves in their native language, believing that I did not understand, and they did not even teach me (it is funny that when I became older they accused me of not knowing my native language). And now, when I am an adult, I see no reason to learn my native language, I'm too lazy, I do not care. Spit on disappearing languages, their diversity only slows down humanity. PS Tower of Babel

do the oldest language TAMIL speaking people exist? YEAH, WE DO!

@marios9824

4 жыл бұрын

You speak Tamil! Amazing. Can you help me out?

@vishvaofficial

4 жыл бұрын

@@marios9824 how can I help you my friend?

@marios9824

4 жыл бұрын

@@vishvaofficial teach me, master!

The world would be a much more efficient place as far as medicine and science go If we all used the same language...

@odolwa099

4 жыл бұрын

Many people are bilingual from an early age and studies suggest learning a language can delay the onset of dementia, so all languages should most definitely be preserved.

@udhiw.4663

4 жыл бұрын

Efficiency is great for machines and Fascism, not for humans

@seantap1415

4 жыл бұрын

@@udhiw.4663 This is a ridiculous reply. Humans shouldn't be efficient. lmao

@udhiw.4663

4 жыл бұрын

@@seantap1415 sorry I didn't get your whole comment, but I think worrying about the suppression of non-conformity is not ridiculous at all RSVP

@seantap1415

4 жыл бұрын

@@udhiw.4663 Its not about conformity, its about details lost in translation.

Why save a language? *Language is just a tool to communicate with others, it is not something you should proud of* I'll be happy if every human on earth speaks the same language.

@Ms1al

4 жыл бұрын

Language is also culture. It tells the history of a people in the very words that are used.

@tagorewithlyric4394

4 жыл бұрын

Language also forms an integral part of intangible cultural heritage. Moreover, languages have their unique essence. Check out the Sapir Whorf Hypothesis. Language shapes unique ways in which people think and make sense of the world around them. So the greater the linguistic diversity, the larger is the playing field for human thought and experience. And people can always have a lingua franca to communicate with the whole wide world. But indigenous languages matter. A lot.

@fatrooster4632

2 жыл бұрын

You do not communicate with the vast majority of people, and will never need to communicate with them. The only time you likely will is for academics or business, in which case, an auxiliary language can be used. A language is the root of a culture. It is our mother, it is our life, our blood, our kin, our ancestors, our descendants. Its words represent our thoughts, minds, and souls. With the death of a language, comes the death of a culture. The descendants can no longer read or understand their ancestors. They lose an unbroken tradition their people possessed for thousands of years. They lose a unique form of expressing themselves and viewing the world. They lose all those words for love, all those unique late-night conversations with friends, those lullabies gently sung to babies, those everyday thoughts in so many peoples' minds. The death of a language is not the death of just one simple thing. It is the cultural death of thousands of people. And it is one of the saddest deaths in the world. Everything is said to die, but language and culture was always meant to be eternal and timeless.

But... why saving one different languages? Wouldn't be better if there was only one language in the world, since it would help people comunicate with each other?

@fatrooster4632

2 жыл бұрын

You do not communicate with the vast majority of people, and will never need to communicate with them. The only time you likely will is for academics or business, in which case, an auxiliary language can be used. A language is the root of a culture. It is our mother, it is our life, our blood, our kin, our ancestors, our descendants. Its words represent our thoughts, minds, and souls. With the death of a language, comes the death of a culture. The descendants can no longer read or understand their ancestors. They lose an unbroken tradition their people possessed for thousands of years. They lose a unique form of expressing themselves and viewing the world. They lose all those words for love, all those unique late-night conversations with friends, those lullabies gently sung to babies, those everyday thoughts in so many peoples' minds. The death of a language is not the death of just one simple thing. It is the cultural death of thousands of people. And it is one of the saddest deaths in the world. Everything is said to die, but language and culture was always meant to be eternal and timeless.

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I'd rather we all speak the same language than be divided by it

@dzikrinasaira3475

4 жыл бұрын

I'd rather being a bilingual that speak my mother tongue and english (international lingua franca)

@fatrooster4632

2 жыл бұрын

You do not communicate with the vast majority of people, and will never need to communicate with them. The only time you likely will is for academics or business, in which case, an auxiliary language can be used. A language is the root of a culture. It is our mother, it is our life, our blood, our kin, our ancestors, our descendants. Its words represent our thoughts, minds, and souls. With the death of a language, comes the death of a culture. The descendants can no longer read or understand their ancestors. They lose an unbroken tradition their people possessed for thousands of years. They lose a unique form of expressing themselves and viewing the world. They lose all those words for love, all those unique late-night conversations with friends, those lullabies gently sung to babies, those everyday thoughts in so many peoples' minds. The death of a language is not the death of just one simple thing. It is the cultural death of thousands of people. And it is one of the saddest deaths in the world. Everything is said to die, but language and culture was always meant to be eternal and timeless.

@KenTheAdventurer

2 жыл бұрын

@@fatrooster4632 I kinda believe we only need to learn that languages of people in the past so we can learn from them. But if I want to increase my opportunity to learn from more people I have to reach far beyond my home and into places that have so much culture that all it takes is to understand each other in the best way like a universal language so we both get lifted higher

@fatrooster4632

2 жыл бұрын

@@KenTheAdventurer You wont understand their culture if you both only speak a universal language. In fact, you will NEVER get a full understanding of them or their culture unless you speak their native language fluently.

@fatrooster4632

2 жыл бұрын

@@KenTheAdventurer You will never fully understand me or my culture unless you speak and understand Punjabi. I'm sorry, but that's just how the world works. Too many unique ideas and untranslatable concepts exist that cant be communicated properly without the correct language and context

it is stupid to save small languages for what, it seems that people treated languages like religions: believing without reasons will it improve their life, and economy if each people learn their languages

@simonpetrikov3992

4 ай бұрын

There is a spiritual connection to languages and I’m saying this because in this day and age, from a purely materialistic perspective it would actually be better to learn one language so that the economy can grow bigger since you can do more trade and do more things like science when everyone speaks the same language everywhere

After watching this video, I found it important for educational institutions to make more minor language classes more for the better. I hope the governments from all over the world embark upon teaching languages going extinct.

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