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taratemimaMaybe it is too late to submit this as an Arisia panel, but I am kinda proud of the idea. It needs much work, though.
http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Linguistics_and_Human_Languages/Languages/Endangered_Languages/
A. Linguistic human rights
1 What it is: rights pertaining to the use of mother tongues and other languages in private and public life
2 What are endangered languages: endangered languages are those which will soon cease to be learned by children. There are other classifications of languages: 'moribund' (no longer learned by children) and safe (neither endangered nor moribund). "It has been estimated (e.g., by Michael Krauss in Alaska), that 20-50% of the world's languages are already moribund, and that 90% (possibly even more) may be moribund or will have disappeared by 2100 (http://www.terralingua.org/Questions/QStateofLgs.html)."
3 Linguistic genocide: "prohibiting the use of the language of the group in daily intercourse or in schools, or the printing and circulation of publications in the language of the group." (http://www.terralingua.org/Definitions/DLingGenocide.html) I would also add war and the Holocaust.
4 Impact on future scientific and cultural developments: " It can prevent optimal participation in further education, in the labour market and in democratic participation in decision-making in society. Much of yesterday's and today's indigenous and minority education represents linguistic genocide." How can a person whose first language is a minority language work in the sciences, write or be a creative member of the majority culture?
5 Traditional understanding and knowledge about ecology lost through substractive education and isolation of minority language speakers.
B. Individual case studies
1. France forcing all *.fr URI's to be in french, but can include links to other languages. (reported on Slashdot), including the attitude toward Breton
2. Yiddish, the Holocaust and Israel I found http://www.ibiblio.org/yiddish/memorial.html/but I am looking more for concrete measuring of how much of pre-war Yiddish culture was lost. Maybe that is too much to ask. We don't know what any of those who died in the Shoah could have done. I do know that there was some antipathy toward Yiddish speaking in the new state of Israel (Yiddish = shtel = weak), but I have no clue how to search for works on Israeli classrooms and Yiddish and Ladino speakers.
3. Kurdish in Turkey
4. A book about linguistic genocide: TOVE SKUTNABB-KANGAS. LINGUISTIC GENOCIDE IN EDUCATION - OR WORLDWIDE DIVERSITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS?
5. Oromos in Ethopia
6. The Sami in Finland
C. Individual and group efforts to fight oppression
Terralingua comes up, but what about UN intiatives?
http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Linguistics_and_Human_Languages/Languages/Endangered_Languages/
A. Linguistic human rights
1 What it is: rights pertaining to the use of mother tongues and other languages in private and public life
2 What are endangered languages: endangered languages are those which will soon cease to be learned by children. There are other classifications of languages: 'moribund' (no longer learned by children) and safe (neither endangered nor moribund). "It has been estimated (e.g., by Michael Krauss in Alaska), that 20-50% of the world's languages are already moribund, and that 90% (possibly even more) may be moribund or will have disappeared by 2100 (http://www.terralingua.org/Questions/QStateofLgs.html)."
3 Linguistic genocide: "prohibiting the use of the language of the group in daily intercourse or in schools, or the printing and circulation of publications in the language of the group." (http://www.terralingua.org/Definitions/DLingGenocide.html) I would also add war and the Holocaust.
4 Impact on future scientific and cultural developments: " It can prevent optimal participation in further education, in the labour market and in democratic participation in decision-making in society. Much of yesterday's and today's indigenous and minority education represents linguistic genocide." How can a person whose first language is a minority language work in the sciences, write or be a creative member of the majority culture?
5 Traditional understanding and knowledge about ecology lost through substractive education and isolation of minority language speakers.
B. Individual case studies
1. France forcing all *.fr URI's to be in french, but can include links to other languages. (reported on Slashdot), including the attitude toward Breton
2. Yiddish, the Holocaust and Israel I found http://www.ibiblio.org/yiddish/memorial.html/but I am looking more for concrete measuring of how much of pre-war Yiddish culture was lost. Maybe that is too much to ask. We don't know what any of those who died in the Shoah could have done. I do know that there was some antipathy toward Yiddish speaking in the new state of Israel (Yiddish = shtel = weak), but I have no clue how to search for works on Israeli classrooms and Yiddish and Ladino speakers.
3. Kurdish in Turkey
4. A book about linguistic genocide: TOVE SKUTNABB-KANGAS. LINGUISTIC GENOCIDE IN EDUCATION - OR WORLDWIDE DIVERSITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS?
5. Oromos in Ethopia
6. The Sami in Finland
C. Individual and group efforts to fight oppression
Terralingua comes up, but what about UN intiatives?
