Poll: What is lost most when an indigenous language weakens? Користувач, який розмістив тему: ProZ.com Staff
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I suppose the greatest loss will be a sense of identity and belonging. AFAIK the United Nations has designated 2022 to 2032 as the UN Decade of Indigenous Languages to support global rescue projects, which aim to counter past colonial government policies that punished children for speaking their native tongues, forcing them to use dominant languages.
| | | | Josephine Cassar 
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Local time: 05:05
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No matter how few people speak that indigenous language, I feel it's very sad. I kind of compare it to people who are displaced because of war for instance. They feel a sense of loss and gradually, as Maria Teresa well said, a sense of identity. It's like they belong nowhere.
| | | | | A politician or a cynical tax-payer might say ... | Aug 26 |
... that a part of what is 'lost' - and good riddance! - is the financial burden assumed by public services in relation to the provision of bi/multi-lingual official documentation, road signs, etc. in accordance with laws and regulations supposedly intended to respect and protect indigenous citizens' cultural and linguistic roots.
I hasten to add that that is not my personal opinion. On the contrary, I live in a region of Chile - La Araucanía - where signage in loca... See more ... that a part of what is 'lost' - and good riddance! - is the financial burden assumed by public services in relation to the provision of bi/multi-lingual official documentation, road signs, etc. in accordance with laws and regulations supposedly intended to respect and protect indigenous citizens' cultural and linguistic roots.
I hasten to add that that is not my personal opinion. On the contrary, I live in a region of Chile - La Araucanía - where signage in local and regional administrative offices, hospitals, courts of law etc. is bi-lingual – Spanish and Mapudungun – and as an immigrant from the UK I very much welcome these everyday reminders that the mapuche peoples were here many centuries before I (or, indeed, before the Conquisatadores) set foot on their territories.
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Gregor Trebec
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| | What else is lost when an indigenous language weakens? | Aug 26 |
Even considering the material and immaterial supports of collective memory, our references are reduced. When a language has little documentation and few speakers, digital resources are also compromised by their absence. This creates difficulties in building a linguistic repository for future generations. Beyond preservation in the sense of “saving a language,” I think about the challenge of preserving the ability to use that language in new contexts throughout the development of a particular... See more Even considering the material and immaterial supports of collective memory, our references are reduced. When a language has little documentation and few speakers, digital resources are also compromised by their absence. This creates difficulties in building a linguistic repository for future generations. Beyond preservation in the sense of “saving a language,” I think about the challenge of preserving the ability to use that language in new contexts throughout the development of a particular linguistic community. ▲ Collapse
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