#language-preservation

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time.com
1 month ago
Writing

Why I'm Teaching My Daughter My Mother's Language

Multilingual upbringing benefits children by exposing them to different languages and cultures.
Irish and Serbian languages face challenges with limited numbers of native speakers and being classified as endangered. [ more ]
www.independent.co.uk
2 months ago
UK news

Welsh pub's unacceptable' change of name to English sparks anger

Welsh residents are upset over a local pub changing its name to English, erasing their culture.
Debates continue around using Welsh names exclusively for cities and landmarks in Wales. [ more ]
www.theguardian.com
3 months ago
Education

By preserving the language, you reinforce communities': a school saving one of Louisiana's oldest dialects

Louisiana's first dual-language program teaches Metropolitan French alongside local French dialects spoken by the Indigenous and Cajun communities.
Preserving Indian French, as community members call it, has taken on new urgency as climate-related hurricanes and coastal erosion threaten to displace the Pointe-au-Chien tribe. [ more ]
www.scientificamerican.com
3 months ago
Science

How to Save Indigenous Languages

Over half of the approximately 7,000 languages spoken today could disappear by the end of the century.
Papua New Guinea, with its linguistic diversity and over 850 different languages, is facing a decline in its indigenous languages. [ more ]
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