Extinct language

Preserving Endangered Languages As An Art Form The article “Why Do Language Die?” by Noah Tesch reminds me a conversation that I had with a Cherokee when I visited a Cherokee Preservation festival at the Cherokee National Park several years ago. When I asked if they are speaking their native languages, he replied to me that the government requires their younger generations to learn whatever are in the culture of Cherokee, including learning the Cherokee language because their languages are near…

Preserving Endangered Languages As An Art Form The article “Why Do Language Die?” by Noah Tesch reminds me a conversation that I had with a Cherokee when I visited a Cherokee Preservation festival several years ago. When I asked if they are speaking their native languages, he told me that the government requires their younger generations to learn whatever are in their culture, including learning the Cherokee language, because their language is near extinction. Languages are not only a way to…

Every language has unique patterns, words and grammar structure, it is why while using google translator, it is more accurate to translate a single word rather then a paragraph. Another example would be idioms, which referring to phrase or word with native cultural understanding. For an American born and raise, the phrase “charley horse” usually referring to a muscle cramp in the leg. However to a foreigner or someone who didn’t grow up in a traditional American family, the phrase may be…

single language will reduce the communication gap and will assist in the increased outreach of globalization, I strongly feel that English dominating the world would be a bad thing. English domination would require the various languages in the world to be extinct. Language extinction occurs when languages have no longer any speakers and there is no chance of revival. Language extinction is taking place at a really fast pace.…

English has come a long way. At today, it is at the peak level of it has ever reached before. Speaking English, became a positive label for people. Every person is trying to learn English as a second language. Even some families are trying to make their children native English speaker even while they are still living in their home countries. Moreover, almost every country’s school syllabus has an English course, even at kindergarten schools, they teach English. All these are facts comes from the…

mentions that the English language is very dominant especially in the state of Wales. People from Wales do not speak their native language anymore, because the English language has been taken over. In 2011 only 20 % of the population of Wales could speak Welsh, which is a low number and much lower, then it used to be. Back in 1840’s 80 % of the population spoke Welsh as their native language and they did not speak English at all. Why it that so? Tom Law’ blames the English language for ‘beating…

The Seminole Tribe of Florida Language: The traditional language of the Seminole Tribe is Muskogean. Muskogean was one of six major tribal languages spoken throughout the south-east of the United States. A dialect of Muskogean, called Mikasuki, was spoken by the Seminole's of the Everglades in south Florida and Muskogean in Central and North Florida. Additionally, Hitchiti, Koasati, Alabama, Natchez, Yuchi, and Shawnee were also spoken by different factions of the tribe throughout Florida due to…

development of local languages. The objectives of his study include 1. To establish if languages are parasitic. 2. To find out the factors that lead to language extinction.3. To see how globalisation has endangered most languages in the world and Africa in particular. Some of the works used for this deep study include:Mualdhuster (1996),Crystal (2000),Dixon(1997),Brenziger, (1998),Renard (2001).These works he uses content analysis and observation to study the ecology of languages from the…

to feature theory would help further the investigation of language rules; others claim that they would be superfluous and unwieldy to work with. It is my opinion that allophones should be added to the distinctive feature theory models as a method of creating a deeper analysis of the formalization of phonological rules in different languages. As confirmation of this claim, I present evidence in the form of apicolabials in the various languages of Vanuatu and how they have changed over time.…

The article “Private Language” written by Patty Crespo, talks about how immigrants should all learn English to live in this country. If we learn the “public language” then we can communicate better and can accomplish more in our lives. However, we should also have the right to keep our traditional cultures and values. Children should also be educated with their parents’ private language because it will help promote their communication with their parents and learn more regarding their traditional…