http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/whats-lost-when-a-language-dies/
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Blog 8
This article brings up important points for example, the languages that do not have a way to be turned into writing are forgotten. The reason being, because people now use writing to communicate. For example, text email or social media. To me it is unfair that some languages die due to our modernization in technology. I would definitely study more about this topic, and I recommend others as well. If we have a language other than English in our family we should continue using it by teaching our children. It would mean that our children multilingual, and how cool is that?
http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/whats-lost-when-a-language-dies/
http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/whats-lost-when-a-language-dies/
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Jennifer! I really likes this article. Its interesting that there is a "spirit" language that they are unable to decode, all they know is the man is talking to spirits. Cool! Also, the article stated that parents of children want to learn a more dominant language so their children can succeed which shows just why some languages are dying off.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the article about how sophisticated some of these languages are. It is hard to save a language if there is no written system, because there are no records to refer to if something is forgotten.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jennifer for Sharing, your blogs are always so nice to read. I thought this article was interesting. I agree with you, people should teach their children other languages that they use, its important, and it gives the children more perspective on the world - and I think that is important too.
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