I learn (and teach) Scottish Gaelic, a minority endangered language related to Irish, and with a similar history of suppression, famine, mass emigration and marginalisation, and similarly being revitalised. This video gives an optimistic picture of revitalisation - it's very, very difficult. However, I'd much rather be optimistic than defeatist! There are signs of progress - the number of speakers in the younger age group is increasing, Gaelic medium education exists up to University level, perception of the language as a low-prestige tongue has significantly improved, and there is more interest from adult learners than ever. Delighted to see quotes from Joshua Fishman - one of my personal linguistic heroes! He said (and I wholeheartedly agree!) that the key to language revitalisation/revival is to *provide things people want or need through the medium of the target language.* Other things may help, but, without that, nothing will be successful in the long term. Current efforts are heavily dependant on precarious government funding, and I would like to see a shift towards a more self-sustaining funding climate. Thank you for highlighting language revitalisation!

@LanguageEasy

3 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for your feedback! The topic of Scottish Gaelic is really interesting too. Hope to be able to highlight it on my channel in the future!

thank you so much for mentioning cornish! meur ras dhis!

Tonga is a Polynesian island too 😭 lol I’m Tongan and although the Tongan language is not going to be extinct anytime soon a lot of the American born Tongans can barely form a sentence let alone understand it and it’s sad … I am one of them 😅 only one of us 9 siblings speak Tongan fluently and that’s because she was raised by our grandparents in the islands, my other older siblings can understand and seem to speak okay grammar but sometimes even my aunties laugh at their accent or incorrect phrases lol i have a daughter and hope to be able to learn more Tongan (and spanish) so she could connect more to those sides of her culture and family.

@LanguageEasy

23 күн бұрын

Thank you for commenting here! That's very interesting to get acquainted with the Tongan language - so unique.

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@LanguageEasy

4 ай бұрын

Thanks! Will have a look 🙌🏻

BTW, the English word “nation” is pronounced [ˈneɪʃən] with the long a-sound, but the derived adjective “national” has the short a-sound: [ˈnæʃənəl].