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- W1943103681 abstract "Federico Fellini once said that “Language is not only a different vocabulary. A different language is a different vision of life.” How lucky we are to live on a planet that is currently home to nearly 7,000 different visions of life, each with a rich history and an irreplaceable capacity to express the collective wisdom and culture of a people. Our luck, however, may be quickly running out. According to UNESCO, over half of the world’s 7,000 languages will be extinct by the year 2100 if no action is taken to ensure their preservation. The extinction of one language, one vision of life, is a tragedy. The impending extinction of so many languages is nothing short of a global cultural crisis. Thus, there is an urgent need to document the world’s dying languages in lasting, durable ways. As the quote from Fellini makes clear, this does not simply mean creating a dictionary listing the words of a language. Languages don’t exist in a vacuum, and they certainly don’t exist (at least in a living sense) in a dictionary. Language is indistinct from the culture of which it is a part and from people who use it, and any effort to document a language must be as political as it is linguistic, as sociological as it is archival. In most cases, there is not a single reason why a language becomes endangered or extinct; it is more often a mix of several interrelated factors (language policy, lack of preservation resources, and language education, among others) that ultimately leads to the spread of more dominant imperial languages and the death of smaller, more marginalized ones. The effort to preserve and revitalize the world’s endangered languages, spearheaded by intrepid linguists, archivists, ethnographers, politicians, professors, and countless others of all stripes around the world, is a monumental one. The resources presented here, while only a tiny sample of those available on the topic, are intended to give some insight into how the incomparably complex and interdisciplinary issues of language endangerment and language revitalization are being confronted on local and global scales." @default.
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- W1943103681 title "How do you say, “I love you” in !Xóõ?: Endangered language resources on the web" @default.
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