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Endangered languages: why it matters | Mandana Seyfeddinipur | TEDxLSHTM
It is estimated that there are 7,000 languages spoken in the world today with 50% of the world’s population speaking 50 languages and the other 50% speaking 6,950 languages. Mandana Seyfeddinipur explains how globalization, climate change, urbanization and political unrest are causing the extinction of languages at a rate equivalent to the loss of biological diversity during the mass extinction of the dinosaurs, and how this negatively impacts cultural diversity and decreases social resilience.
Mandana Seyfeddinipur is a linguist and the director of the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme at SOAS University of London. The programme supports the documentation of endangered languages world wide. Of the approximately 7000 languages spoken today half will have fallen silent by the e...
published: 09 Nov 2015
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Dying Languages | National Geographic
The Enduring Voices Project travels to some of the most remote parts of the world to study Earth's many endangered languages. See them in action in this video of expeditions to Northern Australia and Northeastern India.
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published: 24 Sep 2009
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Endangered Languages: Why Do They Die?
Did you know that EVERY 14 DAYS somewhere in the world, a language dies out?! 🌍
Language death is a very real thing that has shaped the world we live in today both linguistically and culturally. The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has listed 2,473 languages worldwide that are at threat of death or extinction.
But what is the difference between a language dying, and becoming extinct?
Firstly, a dead language is one that has no native speakers (ie. people who are taught to speak it from birth), but is still used by people in some form, somewhere. Latin is a great example of a dead language. Latin, which isn’t spoken anymore, is still widely used for religious purposes and within medicine.
An extinct language is a language that has completely cease...
published: 06 Feb 2020
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Exploring Endangered Languages
Watch the recording from K. David Harrison's webinar from October 16, 2019.
Half of the world's languages are endangered and may go extinct in this century. The loss of these languages will have dire consequences not only for their speakers, but also for culture, science, and the environment. Around the world, speakers of endangered languages are mounting strategic efforts to save their languages. This presentation features photos and video clips of speakers of some of the world’s most endangered languages, from Siberia, India, the USA and other locations, and will demonstrate how indigenous speakers and linguists are working to sustain languages through technology and digital activism. Positive connections between ESL, higher education and language diversity will be explored.
See more a...
published: 06 Feb 2020
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Saving Languages From Extinction
Tunica, Osing, Sorani Kurdish and Dutch sign language—these are among about 500 languages considered critically endangered. With only a handful of speakers, and no active movement to revive the language, they could be lost to time. Thankfully, Daniel Bögre Udell is listening. The co-founder and director of Wikitongues is working with volunteers from all around the world to create an open video archive of people speaking and signing rarely used languages so they can be preserved and passed on to future generations. If we were fluent, we’d thank Daniel in every language we could.
If you'd like to learn more about these endangered languages, check out Wikitongues YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBgWgQyEb5eTzvh4lLcuipQ
And hear more from Elfie speaking Bahasa Aru right here...
published: 17 Apr 2019
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Why do languages die?
There are more than 7,000 languages. The number of people speaking English, Spanish and Mandarin continues to grow, but every fortnight a langauge will disappear forever. The Economist's language expert Lane Greene explains why.
Click here to subscribe to The Economist on YouTube: https://econ.st/2xvTKdy
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I don't speak those languages. In fact very few people do. They're used only by a handful of people, and all those languages are in danger of extinction. There are more than 7,000 languages spoken in the world today but about 1/3 of those have fewer than 1000 speakers and according to UNESCO more than 40% of those languages are in danger of extinction.
In fact every fortnight one of the world's languages disappears forever. When you say dead language many peo...
published: 06 Sep 2018
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25 Most Endangered Languages in the World
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Countries around the world may boast of languages inherent to them alone, but the fact remains that if they do not do something about their own endangered languages, they may quietly go into extinction. There are many reasons why a certain language became endangered. It may be because the population who speaks the language is in physical danger due to natural disasters, war, and genocide but it can also be because the speakers are prevented from speaking the language due to political repression or cultural hegemony. Whatever the reason these are the 25 most endangered languages in the world.
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published: 28 Jun 2013
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Saving endangered languages through music: Susanna Zaraysky at TEDxSantaCruz
Music + language (songs) activate our brains, hearts and souls. By using songs, we can learn foreign languages and saved dying tongues.
This TEDxSantaCruz talk is one of 22 surrounding our theme of "Activate" at the third full-day TEDxSantaCruz event held March 8, 2014 at the Hotel Paradox in Santa Cruz, CA. http://www.tedxsantacruz.org/
Susanna Zaraysky speaks eight languages. She is the author of Language is Music (in English, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish) about how to use music & other media to learn foreign languages and the book, Travel Happy, Budget Low (a budget travel guide). The BBC, CBS, CNN, EFE, The Guardian, Univision and Telemundo have interviewed Susanna about how to improve foreign language education with music. She hosted her own segment in Spanish on the Al Desperta...
published: 01 Jun 2014
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Top 10 Languages That Don't Exist Anymore
Dead and forgotten... well, sort of. For this list, we’re looking at languages that no longer have any native speakers. While some are spoken in specific circumstances or developed into modern variants, these ancient languages have been lost to the passage of time. WatchMojo counts down the Top 10 Dead Languages.
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published: 09 Jul 2019
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Endangered languages: why it matters | Mandana Seyfeddinipur | TEDxLSHTM
It is estimated that there are 7,000 languages spoken in the world today with 50% of the world’s population speaking 50 languages and the other 50% speaking 6,9...
It is estimated that there are 7,000 languages spoken in the world today with 50% of the world’s population speaking 50 languages and the other 50% speaking 6,950 languages. Mandana Seyfeddinipur explains how globalization, climate change, urbanization and political unrest are causing the extinction of languages at a rate equivalent to the loss of biological diversity during the mass extinction of the dinosaurs, and how this negatively impacts cultural diversity and decreases social resilience.
Mandana Seyfeddinipur is a linguist and the director of the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme at SOAS University of London. The programme supports the documentation of endangered languages world wide. Of the approximately 7000 languages spoken today half will have fallen silent by the end of this century. Humanity is losing its linguistic diversity and these unwritten languages are vanishing without a trace. In her work she focuses on the documentation of these languages and the knowledge encoded within them. A specialist in language use and multimodality she supports and trains scholars in how to create multi-media collection of endangered languages documenting the knowledge of our human cultural heritage encoded in language.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
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It is estimated that there are 7,000 languages spoken in the world today with 50% of the world’s population speaking 50 languages and the other 50% speaking 6,950 languages. Mandana Seyfeddinipur explains how globalization, climate change, urbanization and political unrest are causing the extinction of languages at a rate equivalent to the loss of biological diversity during the mass extinction of the dinosaurs, and how this negatively impacts cultural diversity and decreases social resilience.
Mandana Seyfeddinipur is a linguist and the director of the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme at SOAS University of London. The programme supports the documentation of endangered languages world wide. Of the approximately 7000 languages spoken today half will have fallen silent by the end of this century. Humanity is losing its linguistic diversity and these unwritten languages are vanishing without a trace. In her work she focuses on the documentation of these languages and the knowledge encoded within them. A specialist in language use and multimodality she supports and trains scholars in how to create multi-media collection of endangered languages documenting the knowledge of our human cultural heritage encoded in language.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
- published: 09 Nov 2015
- views: 114117
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Dying Languages | National Geographic
The Enduring Voices Project travels to some of the most remote parts of the world to study Earth's many endangered languages. See them in action in this video o...
The Enduring Voices Project travels to some of the most remote parts of the world to study Earth's many endangered languages. See them in action in this video of expeditions to Northern Australia and Northeastern India.
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- published: 24 Sep 2009
- views: 156641
8:13
Endangered Languages: Why Do They Die?
Did you know that EVERY 14 DAYS somewhere in the world, a language dies out?! 🌍
Language death is a very real thing that has shaped the world we live in today...
Did you know that EVERY 14 DAYS somewhere in the world, a language dies out?! 🌍
Language death is a very real thing that has shaped the world we live in today both linguistically and culturally. The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has listed 2,473 languages worldwide that are at threat of death or extinction.
But what is the difference between a language dying, and becoming extinct?
Firstly, a dead language is one that has no native speakers (ie. people who are taught to speak it from birth), but is still used by people in some form, somewhere. Latin is a great example of a dead language. Latin, which isn’t spoken anymore, is still widely used for religious purposes and within medicine.
An extinct language is a language that has completely ceased to exist. In other words, there are NO speakers left anywhere in the world. Kllalam, which was a native American language prominent in Washington DC, became completely extinct in 2014, when the last of its speakers passed away.
But why do languages become either dead or extinct?
There are a number of ways in which this happens:
- Gradual language death:
Probably the most common form of language death, this happens when speakers of a language become bilingual in another language which is more dominant, and over time the original is phased out until it exists no more. The Cornish language, which became extinct in the late 18th century, is a prime example of this happening. However, Cornish is slowly being revived and in 2002, UNESCO declared it as a critically endangered language, as opposed to extinct.
- Bottom-to-top language death:
This form of language death happens when a language ceases to be used as a form of conversation but survives in special circumstances, such as religion or folk songs. This applies to Latin.
- Sudden language death:
This form of death occurs when all or the vast majority of the language’s speakers die as a result of natural disaster or violence. During the 1830s, a number of Tasmanian languages suffered this fate as a result of The Black War, which saw European invaders massacring the native inhabitants.
- Radical language death:
Similarly to sudden language death, radical language death happens quickly and through violence. The difference, however, is that through radical death, not all speakers necessarily die, but are driven underground through the persecution of their culture or language. This happened to the Lencan and Cacaopera languages in El Salvador after the 1932 revolt.
Who knows what will happen to some of the world’s most known and spoken languages in the future? Smaller, lesser-known languages will continue to perish frequently, but it is likely that the same fate will fall upon the most popular.
It’s up to us to keep the world’s languages alive by continuing to use them!
Did you know that Busuu is named after a nearly extinct language? Whilst, unfortunately, we don’t teach endangered languages, you can learn up to 12 widely spoken languages on Busuu.
Start learning a language for free with Busuu! 💙
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Did you know that EVERY 14 DAYS somewhere in the world, a language dies out?! 🌍
Language death is a very real thing that has shaped the world we live in today both linguistically and culturally. The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has listed 2,473 languages worldwide that are at threat of death or extinction.
But what is the difference between a language dying, and becoming extinct?
Firstly, a dead language is one that has no native speakers (ie. people who are taught to speak it from birth), but is still used by people in some form, somewhere. Latin is a great example of a dead language. Latin, which isn’t spoken anymore, is still widely used for religious purposes and within medicine.
An extinct language is a language that has completely ceased to exist. In other words, there are NO speakers left anywhere in the world. Kllalam, which was a native American language prominent in Washington DC, became completely extinct in 2014, when the last of its speakers passed away.
But why do languages become either dead or extinct?
There are a number of ways in which this happens:
- Gradual language death:
Probably the most common form of language death, this happens when speakers of a language become bilingual in another language which is more dominant, and over time the original is phased out until it exists no more. The Cornish language, which became extinct in the late 18th century, is a prime example of this happening. However, Cornish is slowly being revived and in 2002, UNESCO declared it as a critically endangered language, as opposed to extinct.
- Bottom-to-top language death:
This form of language death happens when a language ceases to be used as a form of conversation but survives in special circumstances, such as religion or folk songs. This applies to Latin.
- Sudden language death:
This form of death occurs when all or the vast majority of the language’s speakers die as a result of natural disaster or violence. During the 1830s, a number of Tasmanian languages suffered this fate as a result of The Black War, which saw European invaders massacring the native inhabitants.
- Radical language death:
Similarly to sudden language death, radical language death happens quickly and through violence. The difference, however, is that through radical death, not all speakers necessarily die, but are driven underground through the persecution of their culture or language. This happened to the Lencan and Cacaopera languages in El Salvador after the 1932 revolt.
Who knows what will happen to some of the world’s most known and spoken languages in the future? Smaller, lesser-known languages will continue to perish frequently, but it is likely that the same fate will fall upon the most popular.
It’s up to us to keep the world’s languages alive by continuing to use them!
Did you know that Busuu is named after a nearly extinct language? Whilst, unfortunately, we don’t teach endangered languages, you can learn up to 12 widely spoken languages on Busuu.
Start learning a language for free with Busuu! 💙
Sign up on desktop: https://bit.ly/2JfQWEm
Download Busuu on iOS: https://app.adjust.com/6vq9dns
Download Busuu on Android: https://app.adjust.com/zhe3l41
- published: 06 Feb 2020
- views: 27687
55:30
Exploring Endangered Languages
Watch the recording from K. David Harrison's webinar from October 16, 2019.
Half of the world's languages are endangered and may go extinct in this century. Th...
Watch the recording from K. David Harrison's webinar from October 16, 2019.
Half of the world's languages are endangered and may go extinct in this century. The loss of these languages will have dire consequences not only for their speakers, but also for culture, science, and the environment. Around the world, speakers of endangered languages are mounting strategic efforts to save their languages. This presentation features photos and video clips of speakers of some of the world’s most endangered languages, from Siberia, India, the USA and other locations, and will demonstrate how indigenous speakers and linguists are working to sustain languages through technology and digital activism. Positive connections between ESL, higher education and language diversity will be explored.
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Watch the recording from K. David Harrison's webinar from October 16, 2019.
Half of the world's languages are endangered and may go extinct in this century. The loss of these languages will have dire consequences not only for their speakers, but also for culture, science, and the environment. Around the world, speakers of endangered languages are mounting strategic efforts to save their languages. This presentation features photos and video clips of speakers of some of the world’s most endangered languages, from Siberia, India, the USA and other locations, and will demonstrate how indigenous speakers and linguists are working to sustain languages through technology and digital activism. Positive connections between ESL, higher education and language diversity will be explored.
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- published: 06 Feb 2020
- views: 2907
3:31
Saving Languages From Extinction
Tunica, Osing, Sorani Kurdish and Dutch sign language—these are among about 500 languages considered critically endangered. With only a handful of speakers, and...
Tunica, Osing, Sorani Kurdish and Dutch sign language—these are among about 500 languages considered critically endangered. With only a handful of speakers, and no active movement to revive the language, they could be lost to time. Thankfully, Daniel Bögre Udell is listening. The co-founder and director of Wikitongues is working with volunteers from all around the world to create an open video archive of people speaking and signing rarely used languages so they can be preserved and passed on to future generations. If we were fluent, we’d thank Daniel in every language we could.
If you'd like to learn more about these endangered languages, check out Wikitongues YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBgWgQyEb5eTzvh4lLcuipQ
And hear more from Elfie speaking Bahasa Aru right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iE0R8b3tq4
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Tunica, Osing, Sorani Kurdish and Dutch sign language—these are among about 500 languages considered critically endangered. With only a handful of speakers, and no active movement to revive the language, they could be lost to time. Thankfully, Daniel Bögre Udell is listening. The co-founder and director of Wikitongues is working with volunteers from all around the world to create an open video archive of people speaking and signing rarely used languages so they can be preserved and passed on to future generations. If we were fluent, we’d thank Daniel in every language we could.
If you'd like to learn more about these endangered languages, check out Wikitongues YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBgWgQyEb5eTzvh4lLcuipQ
And hear more from Elfie speaking Bahasa Aru right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iE0R8b3tq4
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- published: 17 Apr 2019
- views: 150578
3:27
Why do languages die?
There are more than 7,000 languages. The number of people speaking English, Spanish and Mandarin continues to grow, but every fortnight a langauge will disappea...
There are more than 7,000 languages. The number of people speaking English, Spanish and Mandarin continues to grow, but every fortnight a langauge will disappear forever. The Economist's language expert Lane Greene explains why.
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Dydh Da
I don't speak those languages. In fact very few people do. They're used only by a handful of people, and all those languages are in danger of extinction. There are more than 7,000 languages spoken in the world today but about 1/3 of those have fewer than 1000 speakers and according to UNESCO more than 40% of those languages are in danger of extinction.
In fact every fortnight one of the world's languages disappears forever. When you say dead language many people think of Latin, but Latin actually never died it's been spoken continuously since the time of the Caesars, but it changed very gradually over 2,000 years until it became French, Spanish, and other Romance languages. True language death happens when communities switched to other languages and parents stopped raising their children to speak their old ones. Then the last elderly speaker dies the language is unlikely ever to be spoken fluently again.
If you look at this chart which measures the world's languages in terms of their size and their state of health you can see that most languages are ranked in the middle. English like just a few other dominant languages is up at the top left hand corner it's in a really strong state but if your language is down here in the bottom right hand corner of the graph like Kayupulau from Indonesia or Kuruaya from Brazil you are in serious trouble.
In the bad old days governments just banned languages they didn't like but sometimes the pressure is more subtle. Any teenager growing up in the Soviet Union soon realized that whatever language you spoke at home, mastering Russian was going to be the key to success. Citizens of China including Tibetans as well as speakers of Shanghainese or Cantonese face similar pressure today to focus on Mandarin.
Once the language is gone well it usually goes the way of the dodo - just one language has ever come back from the dead - Hebrew. It was extinct for two millennia but Jewish settlers to Palestine in the early 20th centuries spoke different languages back in Europe and they adopted Hebrew on their arrival as their common language. It became Israel's official language when the country was fully established in 1948 and now has seven million speakers. Now Hebrew is the world's only fully revived language but others are trying. Cornish, spoken in southwestern England, died out two centuries ago but today there are several hundred speakers of the revived language.
Practicality aside human diversity is a good thing in its own right. Imagine going on an exciting holiday only to find that the food, clothing, buildings, the people and yes the language was just the same as back home. Oliver Wendell Holmes put it well "every language is a temple in which the soul of those who speak it is enshrined". Moving that soul of the people from a temple into a museum just isn't the same thing.
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There are more than 7,000 languages. The number of people speaking English, Spanish and Mandarin continues to grow, but every fortnight a langauge will disappear forever. The Economist's language expert Lane Greene explains why.
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Irankarapte
iishu
Dydh Da
I don't speak those languages. In fact very few people do. They're used only by a handful of people, and all those languages are in danger of extinction. There are more than 7,000 languages spoken in the world today but about 1/3 of those have fewer than 1000 speakers and according to UNESCO more than 40% of those languages are in danger of extinction.
In fact every fortnight one of the world's languages disappears forever. When you say dead language many people think of Latin, but Latin actually never died it's been spoken continuously since the time of the Caesars, but it changed very gradually over 2,000 years until it became French, Spanish, and other Romance languages. True language death happens when communities switched to other languages and parents stopped raising their children to speak their old ones. Then the last elderly speaker dies the language is unlikely ever to be spoken fluently again.
If you look at this chart which measures the world's languages in terms of their size and their state of health you can see that most languages are ranked in the middle. English like just a few other dominant languages is up at the top left hand corner it's in a really strong state but if your language is down here in the bottom right hand corner of the graph like Kayupulau from Indonesia or Kuruaya from Brazil you are in serious trouble.
In the bad old days governments just banned languages they didn't like but sometimes the pressure is more subtle. Any teenager growing up in the Soviet Union soon realized that whatever language you spoke at home, mastering Russian was going to be the key to success. Citizens of China including Tibetans as well as speakers of Shanghainese or Cantonese face similar pressure today to focus on Mandarin.
Once the language is gone well it usually goes the way of the dodo - just one language has ever come back from the dead - Hebrew. It was extinct for two millennia but Jewish settlers to Palestine in the early 20th centuries spoke different languages back in Europe and they adopted Hebrew on their arrival as their common language. It became Israel's official language when the country was fully established in 1948 and now has seven million speakers. Now Hebrew is the world's only fully revived language but others are trying. Cornish, spoken in southwestern England, died out two centuries ago but today there are several hundred speakers of the revived language.
Practicality aside human diversity is a good thing in its own right. Imagine going on an exciting holiday only to find that the food, clothing, buildings, the people and yes the language was just the same as back home. Oliver Wendell Holmes put it well "every language is a temple in which the soul of those who speak it is enshrined". Moving that soul of the people from a temple into a museum just isn't the same thing.
Daily Watch: mind-stretching short films throughout the working week.
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- published: 06 Sep 2018
- views: 335706
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25 Most Endangered Languages in the World
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Countries around the world may boast of languages inherent to them alone, but the fact remains that if they d...
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Countries around the world may boast of languages inherent to them alone, but the fact remains that if they do not do something about their own endangered languages, they may quietly go into extinction. There are many reasons why a certain language became endangered. It may be because the population who speaks the language is in physical danger due to natural disasters, war, and genocide but it can also be because the speakers are prevented from speaking the language due to political repression or cultural hegemony. Whatever the reason these are the 25 most endangered languages in the world.
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Ainu
Apiaka
Bikya
Chamicuro
Chemehuevi
Dumi
Dusner
Kaixana
Kansa
Lemerig
Njerep
Ongota
Patwin
Pazeh
Puelche
Qawasqar
Tanema
Taushiro
Tinigua
Tolowa
Vilela
Volow
Wintu-Nomlaki
Yaghan
Yarawi
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Countries around the world may boast of languages inherent to them alone, but the fact remains that if they do not do something about their own endangered languages, they may quietly go into extinction. There are many reasons why a certain language became endangered. It may be because the population who speaks the language is in physical danger due to natural disasters, war, and genocide but it can also be because the speakers are prevented from speaking the language due to political repression or cultural hegemony. Whatever the reason these are the 25 most endangered languages in the world.
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Ainu
Apiaka
Bikya
Chamicuro
Chemehuevi
Dumi
Dusner
Kaixana
Kansa
Lemerig
Njerep
Ongota
Patwin
Pazeh
Puelche
Qawasqar
Tanema
Taushiro
Tinigua
Tolowa
Vilela
Volow
Wintu-Nomlaki
Yaghan
Yarawi
- published: 28 Jun 2013
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Saving endangered languages through music: Susanna Zaraysky at TEDxSantaCruz
Music + language (songs) activate our brains, hearts and souls. By using songs, we can learn foreign languages and saved dying tongues.
This TEDxSantaCruz tal...
Music + language (songs) activate our brains, hearts and souls. By using songs, we can learn foreign languages and saved dying tongues.
This TEDxSantaCruz talk is one of 22 surrounding our theme of "Activate" at the third full-day TEDxSantaCruz event held March 8, 2014 at the Hotel Paradox in Santa Cruz, CA. http://www.tedxsantacruz.org/
Susanna Zaraysky speaks eight languages. She is the author of Language is Music (in English, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish) about how to use music & other media to learn foreign languages and the book, Travel Happy, Budget Low (a budget travel guide). The BBC, CBS, CNN, EFE, The Guardian, Univision and Telemundo have interviewed Susanna about how to improve foreign language education with music. She hosted her own segment in Spanish on the Al Despertar morning show on Univision San Francisco called "El idioma es música" where she taught English grammar and pronunciation via songs. She is the co-producer of the documentary, Saved by Language, about how a young Bosnian boy saved his life in the Holocaust by speaking Ladino. The US State Department has organized her presentations about language learning through music in Bosnia, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Qatar and Russia. http://createyourworldbook.com/
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
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Music + language (songs) activate our brains, hearts and souls. By using songs, we can learn foreign languages and saved dying tongues.
This TEDxSantaCruz talk is one of 22 surrounding our theme of "Activate" at the third full-day TEDxSantaCruz event held March 8, 2014 at the Hotel Paradox in Santa Cruz, CA. http://www.tedxsantacruz.org/
Susanna Zaraysky speaks eight languages. She is the author of Language is Music (in English, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish) about how to use music & other media to learn foreign languages and the book, Travel Happy, Budget Low (a budget travel guide). The BBC, CBS, CNN, EFE, The Guardian, Univision and Telemundo have interviewed Susanna about how to improve foreign language education with music. She hosted her own segment in Spanish on the Al Despertar morning show on Univision San Francisco called "El idioma es música" where she taught English grammar and pronunciation via songs. She is the co-producer of the documentary, Saved by Language, about how a young Bosnian boy saved his life in the Holocaust by speaking Ladino. The US State Department has organized her presentations about language learning through music in Bosnia, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Qatar and Russia. http://createyourworldbook.com/
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
- published: 01 Jun 2014
- views: 34001
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Top 10 Languages That Don't Exist Anymore
Dead and forgotten... well, sort of. For this list, we’re looking at languages that no longer have any native speakers. While some are spoken in specific circum...
Dead and forgotten... well, sort of. For this list, we’re looking at languages that no longer have any native speakers. While some are spoken in specific circumstances or developed into modern variants, these ancient languages have been lost to the passage of time. WatchMojo counts down the Top 10 Dead Languages.
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Dead and forgotten... well, sort of. For this list, we’re looking at languages that no longer have any native speakers. While some are spoken in specific circumstances or developed into modern variants, these ancient languages have been lost to the passage of time. WatchMojo counts down the Top 10 Dead Languages.
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Top 10 Incredible Ancient Ruins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNy42hmZqng
Top 10 BIGGEST Secrets & Mysteries of Ancient Egypt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jXV1eBZtnE
Top 10 Civilizations That Mysteriously Faded Away: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQdzYP-UYDg
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- published: 09 Jul 2019
- views: 152848