The welsh knot make me think about breton language, in Brittany, back then children receved the same punishment if they used breton in class instead of french
France is guilty of killing all of the regional variations of French with Standard French, only a few words of Norman French now exist saved in the English language, often modified over the centuries. Many countries have done the same, at least the UK still has regional dialects and languages. Cornish having been saved from total extinction.
The french and some delusional linguist experts think french will become far popular language in future, but I dont think so. French will be spoken natively in France, when most people learn it as second language, because they think its beutiful language. In Africa I think english will still dominate as larger language, because its status as the undisputed international language of the world and so people for example in Nigeria learn english. African people still got their own tribe languages in Africa, so why would they not keep them up and not let them die to extinction, than learn the language of their former colonizer France. There is already african language in Africa that has more total speakers, than french has, so I think that language could better work as lingua france in Africa or the english language with its international status can work as the lingua franca language in Africa also, because a lot of people around the world can speak english.
you calling them variations of "French" is very inaccurate. There are various Latin based languages previously spoken in France that are similar to Standard French but AREN'T French like Walloon for example. Then there are other Latin languages like, Franco-Provençal, Occitan etc. Then there are non Latin languages like Breton and Basque.
@@christophehorguelin7044English doesn't belong to anyone anymore. French is very much still linked to the Francophonie and leaves France in power. Who dictates what's the proper form of English? When literally so many accents and pidgins of English exist now.
Im confused why so much work goes into finding out which languages are in danger, forming committees, holding meetings around the world. Unesco doing the same. Why don't these (100's maybe 1000's of) people - if they are so passionate about saving languages, each of them could take a language and compile a book and audio to record a language so theyre never lost. In my opinion, if people stop using a language, its because it is no longer useful. But we have had the technology for over 100 years to make sure it is recorded and recognised forever.
Kinda amazing how much is discernable from the language speakers with just a French background. Didn't get everything of course but enough for a good guess at the central ideas.
You guys did not mention Livonian languages one of the languages that is Fighting strong and even has one kid that only speaks Livonian🎉🎉 thx to her Parents
Text, prayers and songs were used for 2,000 years. Jewish communities in Arab countries sang the same songs like the European communities (with different stresse). Some of modern Hebrew Aliezer Ben Yehuda created was borrowed from Arabic and European languages, with the grammatical roots system of Hebrew (like Arabic and any Semitic language) being used.
England didn’t really start sticking flags in places til the Elizabethan age so 500 years really. Prior to that, we were busy being invaded by the French etc. Otherwise, I agree completely with you. The notion of a few European countries to travel about and stick flags in already occupied countries and claim them as their own is so, so wrong and the root of so many problems today. The only positive I see is the multicultural country I get to see today that is enriched by people from all over the Commonwealth making their homes here and working here (and those from Europe too). Sadly, it seems that this is a minority view here and racism and xenophobia are all too common and purposefully stirred up by our current government and most of the press.
@@sarahrigby7580 without western colonitation most would still live in slavery and/or stone age - or in some cases kind of feudalism. plus, most were even not alive/born. if we live in a kind of simulation and everyones wishes became true in the 'next life' then most should think very carefully what they belief (its in over 90% utter ideology and nonsense which would backslash hardly. all anticapitalist would find themself all of a sudden in poverty and primitive cultures for instance - because anti capitalism is nothing else than a ultraconservative/antimodernist back to the 'simple pre-modern trival life'. most are just to stupid to get this. same is with the antiliberal/antiwestern/anticolonialism, mostly spread by socialist and other antimodernist dictatorships and supporters of anti-human rights. not only were there already colonialism of all kind before but always a much worse one. apart from that, its just stupid to think that all languages can survive in a globalizing world which synchronizes permanently. most languages existed around 10000 years ago (about 100000 languages) as a result of small groups spread over the world and lived relatively isolated. with every change to newer structures (first settlements, bigger tribes, tribe confederations, first cities, empires etc.) more and more languages died out - more and more ppl got synchronized on fewer languages. thats like a simple iq test recognizing such general mechanisms of sychronications ...
Gaeilge Is in trouble because people are ashemed of speaking It or consider It useless, It's officially the first language of the country..wake up fellas colonialism Is over
Nah, from 1975 to today maybe Is the most successfull language in Europe, from being illegal to being co-official and being used in News, TV, and dubbed for movies
Catalan is likely the only stateless language in Europe (not counting Andorra, as only a small number lives there), having some success teaching it to non-natives who moved to the area, while in general, the use of stateless languages is in decline anywhere in Europe.
Most people in Belarus speak Russian because their country is under Russia’s sphere of influence. So the Belarusian language is a dying world language. Very few people in Belarus speak Belarusian. Беларуская мова. 🇧🇾. Belarusian language. In the Ukraine most people are bilingual. Most Ukrainians speak both Ukrainian, and Russian because of the large Russian population in the Ukraine, and the Russian influence in the Ukraine. Many Ukrainians and Russians have families in the two countries. So if you go to the Ukraine you will encounter some Ukrainians that speak both Ukrainian and Russian. Украинский язык Українська мова Русский язык Російська мова. 🇷🇺🇺🇦.
I have a friend who is a multiethnic Russian; looks Asian, has a Ukrainian family name, Russian first, and is from the Russian Republic of Baskortostan. And speaking of Belarus, I spoke to a nurse who's originally from there, and she thinks the Belorussian will soon become "socially" extinct by being just absorb as slang words into Russian, Ukrainian, and Polish.
@@imrytebeehyneuit doesn't matter. The language is still called Spanish, regardless of the dialect. If you're talking about Heritage, then get ready to criticize.
I don't think SPANISH is going anywhere.There's so many countries speak it. (Spain, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, etc, etc). Also more and more traveller's are picking up Spanish, a 2nd language. It's such a beautiful sounding language, IMO.
I think that there are many languages that are officially endangered that weren’t mentioned. I don’t think it was excluding any one of them, more pointing out that there are endangered languages and what can be done to help them by giving a couple of examples . Why not either write a detailed reply in English about Ranglong and why it’s endangered and should be saved, or make a video in reply about Ranglong with an English introduction and then show off the beauty of Ranglong and include some subtitles? Do you want people around the world to learn it? or just be aware of it? People local to you? Use your platform to highlight it rather than just complain that it wasn’t included in the very small selection of examples given. Good luck!
You neglected Hindi. That's spoken by more people than French and Arabic. Also maybe Spanish, but the number of Spanish speakers and Hindi speakers is kind of close. As far as Chinese, I assume you mean Mandarin, since there are many Chinese languages.
You are delusional. No languages remian. All evolve and grow. English is the dominant global language and it is growing forever, absorbing and mixing with all languages. Wth Spanish second. French and Russian will die out as irrelevant. "Arabic" and "Chinese" aren't languages but a cluster of languages.
Dear BBC, Thank you for this video, however: Please keep in mind the revival of Hebrew was a collaborative effort. Yes Eliëzer 'ben Yehuda' Perlman was a prominent radical in the hebraïst movement. But Ahad Ha'am, Haïm Biawik, David ben Gurion and the state of Israel contributed immensly to it; Moreover, the native Hebrew speakers of Yemen, Palestine, and Morroco (who would speak it only in the liturgy) And all the unnamed Hebrew teachers and students who keep this language living on a daily basis. All deserve credit as well. This myth of ' Individual Eliezer ben Yehuda, singlehandedly reviving the language' is apocryphal at best. I doubt that it is historically acurate to claim such a feat. At worst, if I may say so; it is propaganda.
@@3941602 So you mean the alleged "movement" to use the *_word,_* "Latinx", to replace "Latina" and "Latino"? Why didn't you say that in the first place? I don't think "Latinx" is as prevalent as you believe. As far as I'm aware (and I realize I could be very wrong), only the US uses that term.
@@3941602 no. It’s not replacing or changing anything about the actual language - gendered nouns, different articles and endings depending on whether a noun is masculine, feminine (or neutral, depending on the language, but just masc and fem for Spanish)) are still very much a key part of the language even if you use the term Latinx, which you don’t seem to understand anyway. It is one word, used in American English to describe people of Spanish-speaking heritage (Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Honduras etc etc), used to replace saying Latinos and Latinas and includes people who are non-binary or genderfluid etc. I believe the term latina can be used when speaking Spanish in America as well, and hence latinx could also be used, but I think I’ve come across it written down more than spoken. One word that’s predominantly used in English is hardly going to threaten a language as widely spoken and as commonly used as Spanish , or even any particular dialect of Spanish. People can be very quick to demonise things even though they don’t know what they are.
Its not about power and domination. Languages spoken by more people are simply more valuable as they give you access to communicate with more people. Learning English has brought huge amounts of people out of poverty. The danger is you're disconnecting people, shrinking their world.
What a stupid comment. DO you know you can learn several languages and speak 2, 3 or even more? Learning their ancestral language hasn't made people suddenly forget English
@@KateeAngel Well yes, If you believe English or another major language is only prolific because it's a language of repression, domination and power you will stop speaking it. Or teaching it to your children. -Ironic coming from you.
@@crown9413but you also have to recognize that the languages that are doing well are doing well for precisely that reason. You can communicate with more people if they live in countries that speak your language because they were formerly dominated. You can't divorce the survival of languages from the Imperial growth of those languages' homelands
This is a VERY ignorant comment. It assumes monolingualism as the default and multilingualism as a nuisance. It also assumes a language's only value is its utility as a large body of communication when languages also hold cultural value and you don't speak with everyone in the world 24/7. Cultural units will always exist and most endangered languages are repressed by imperialist structures anyway so they are bound to be morally freed because of anti-colonialism.
Not really. That's privileged monolingual ignorance. Switzerland is multilingual but very stable. While looking at the US, the epitome of stubborn monolingualism and even English exceptionalism, is it not divided? Please.
meh............. this is just linguistical Darwinism ...... if they were so great of languages, they would be more popular...... not on the verge of extinction.
@@Danpungip remind me what the subject was? i could of sworn the subject was language..... not me... i think you might need to learn how to stay on topic.
Personally I'm thrilled when a small language dies. The less languages and accents, the easier it is for everyone to communicate worldwide. The reality of the world is, the more people you can communicate with, the better off you are going to be. If I were a parent, the only languages I would try to get my child to learn are English, Mandarin Spanish, and Hindi. Unless at least half a billion people speak it, it is better off letting the language die out.
Yeah, I agree, the less languages there are the greater the number of people who will be forced to learn English, which I'm betting is your native language, and I'm sure it thrills you to know that cultures are dying due to assimilation and homogenization of our world 'cuz of people like you and those guys are now having to learn your native tongue so you don't have to learn theirs and communicate! This is what I call a sensible comment!!
@@programmingthings1770 When you know the most popular language on the planet, one that over a Billion and a half people know, why would you learn anything else. I took Latin, and frankly, that was probably more worthwhile than a lot of modern languages spoken by a couple million people. Languages that most people choose not to speak are worthless languages.
@@dancahill9585 Yeah, of course, why would you learn anything else? Like, imagine going to, idk, Hungary, and trying to make an effort to learn the language, even just some basic stuff to, you know, show respect for the people there who are receiving you., nah, why bother am I right, they all speak my language. "They have to adapt, I don't". The reason I got so mad at this is cause I'm not anglophone, I'm portuguese, and thanks for calling my language worthless, btw, really apreciate it (I'm certain you won't understand why I'm mad, thanks to your Americentrist distorted way of seeing reality (I'm also going to bet you're from the US, let's see!)... To be really honest with you, the worst part is not just that you said you think when languages die, it's good, 'cuz then everyone will eventually be subdued to the english language and become just like "civilized" american people, speaking "my language", the "best language", ain't that great? But that you really don't seem to understand the concept of culture. Listen, languages are a direct reflection of the culture of the people who speak it and often carry really useful nuances or knowledge within it (of course you've never thought about, it's called americentrism). What you're basically implying is that you feel happy that cultures are dying out, but I guess that shouldn't come as much of a surprise since just by looking at the US alone it's really interesting the really respectful way with which you treated your native people, those uncivilized dirty ol' pigs, thank god you taught them your superior language and completely extincted half of the languages spoken on the territory and also erradicated a lot of the costumes and cultures of the native americans, which have now been lost in time, such impure languages and costumes should've never existed in the first place, I'm glad americans (appropriate name, btw) were there to fix it!!
@@dancahill9585 Oh and I loved the fact you say those "languages spoken only by a couple million people are worthless" when having just said you took Latin 💀
Learning or being brought up in a minority language doesn’t stop you from learning and speaking other languages. In most countries it’s common to speak two or three languages. These rarer languages link to the history and culture of a people, often a tribe or indigenous population that’s now being governed in a different language, whether that’s Basque, Catalan, Cornish, Gaelic, Navajo, Hawaiien, Xhosa, Yiddish, Maori, it doesn’t matter, but losing the complex oral histories and rich cultures associated with these languages would be disastrous and also risks losing some of the amazing knowledge of the natural world that we in the west are just waking up to that some of this knowledge could help us protect the planet and potentially give rise to new medicines. Each and every culture is valuable and should be treasured and many are only now under threat because of colonialism and the spread of English, Spanish, French etc. Hundreds of languages have probably already died out across North and South America and Australia.
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The welsh knot make me think about breton language, in Brittany, back then children receved the same punishment if they used breton in class instead of french
I heard it was the same with Basque under Franco. It's the same the whole world over.
France is guilty of killing all of the regional variations of French with Standard French, only a few words of Norman French now exist saved in the English language, often modified over the centuries. Many countries have done the same, at least the UK still has regional dialects and languages. Cornish having been saved from total extinction.
The french and some delusional linguist experts think french will become far popular language in future, but I dont think so. French will be spoken natively in France, when most people learn it as second language, because they think its beutiful language. In Africa I think english will still dominate as larger language, because its status as the undisputed international language of the world and so people for example in Nigeria learn english. African people still got their own tribe languages in Africa, so why would they not keep them up and not let them die to extinction, than learn the language of their former colonizer France. There is already african language in Africa that has more total speakers, than french has, so I think that language could better work as lingua france in Africa or the english language with its international status can work as the lingua franca language in Africa also, because a lot of people around the world can speak english.
French is a colonialist language but English isn’t?
you calling them variations of "French" is very inaccurate. There are various Latin based languages previously spoken in France that are similar to Standard French but AREN'T French like Walloon for example. Then there are other Latin languages like, Franco-Provençal, Occitan etc. Then there are non Latin languages like Breton and Basque.
@@christophehorguelin7044English doesn't belong to anyone anymore. French is very much still linked to the Francophonie and leaves France in power.
Who dictates what's the proper form of English? When literally so many accents and pidgins of English exist now.
French speakers are the most nerve-wracking, in Brussels, Switzerland, Luxembourg, they come and try ro conquer.
Thank God they are not succeeding.
Im confused why so much work goes into finding out which languages are in danger, forming committees, holding meetings around the world. Unesco doing the same. Why don't these (100's maybe 1000's of) people - if they are so passionate about saving languages, each of them could take a language and compile a book and audio to record a language so theyre never lost. In my opinion, if people stop using a language, its because it is no longer useful. But we have had the technology for over 100 years to make sure it is recorded and recognised forever.
Its out duty to keep these languages and cultures alive and recorded. We've already lost so much of what makes us who we are.
Kinda amazing how much is discernable from the language speakers with just a French background. Didn't get everything of course but enough for a good guess at the central ideas.
You guys did not mention Livonian languages one of the languages that is Fighting strong and even has one kid that only speaks Livonian🎉🎉 thx to her Parents
If a language has not been spoken for 2,000 years, how does one know if they are doing it right?
Possibly they barely use it....
Latin hasn't been spoken as a native tongue for 2000 years. How Vatican knows it?
Text, prayers and songs were used for 2,000 years. Jewish communities in Arab countries sang the same songs like the European communities (with different stresse). Some of modern Hebrew Aliezer Ben Yehuda created was borrowed from Arabic and European languages, with the grammatical roots system of Hebrew (like Arabic and any Semitic language) being used.
@@einat1622 That is so interesting. It must have been a huge job. Thank you.
do you think they had non binary and gender neutral language and latin x pronouns back then??
Gaeilge is in trouble because of British colonization for 800 years so it would be around if England didn't decide to conquer half the world
England didn’t really start sticking flags in places til the Elizabethan age so 500 years really. Prior to that, we were busy being invaded by the French etc. Otherwise, I agree completely with you. The notion of a few European countries to travel about and stick flags in already occupied countries and claim them as their own is so, so wrong and the root of so many problems today. The only positive I see is the multicultural country I get to see today that is enriched by people from all over the Commonwealth making their homes here and working here (and those from Europe too). Sadly, it seems that this is a minority view here and racism and xenophobia are all too common and purposefully stirred up by our current government and most of the press.
@@sarahrigby7580 without western colonitation most would still live in slavery and/or stone age - or in some cases kind of feudalism. plus, most were even not alive/born. if we live in a kind of simulation and everyones wishes became true in the 'next life' then most should think very carefully what they belief (its in over 90% utter ideology and nonsense which would backslash hardly. all anticapitalist would find themself all of a sudden in poverty and primitive cultures for instance - because anti capitalism is nothing else than a ultraconservative/antimodernist back to the 'simple pre-modern trival life'. most are just to stupid to get this. same is with the antiliberal/antiwestern/anticolonialism, mostly spread by socialist and other antimodernist dictatorships and supporters of anti-human rights. not only were there already colonialism of all kind before but always a much worse one. apart from that, its just stupid to think that all languages can survive in a globalizing world which synchronizes permanently. most languages existed around 10000 years ago (about 100000 languages) as a result of small groups spread over the world and lived relatively isolated. with every change to newer structures (first settlements, bigger tribes, tribe confederations, first cities, empires etc.) more and more languages died out - more and more ppl got synchronized on fewer languages. thats like a simple iq test recognizing such general mechanisms of sychronications ...
Gaeilge Is in trouble because people are ashemed of speaking It or consider It useless, It's officially the first language of the country..wake up fellas colonialism Is over
I try to bring back the Coptic language on my channel. I would love to cooperate with other organizations
Catalan is in danger.
I am confident they (you?) will keep it alive!
Nah, from 1975 to today maybe Is the most successfull language in Europe, from being illegal to being co-official and being used in News, TV, and dubbed for movies
Catalan is likely the only stateless language in Europe (not counting Andorra, as only a small number lives there), having some success teaching it to non-natives who moved to the area, while in general, the use of stateless languages is in decline anywhere in Europe.
Most people in Belarus speak Russian because their country is under Russia’s sphere of influence. So the Belarusian language is a dying world language. Very few people in Belarus speak Belarusian.
Беларуская мова. 🇧🇾.
Belarusian language.
In the Ukraine most people are bilingual. Most Ukrainians speak both Ukrainian, and Russian because of the large Russian population in the Ukraine, and the Russian influence in the Ukraine. Many Ukrainians and Russians have families in the two countries. So if you go to the Ukraine you will encounter some Ukrainians that speak both Ukrainian and Russian.
Украинский язык
Українська мова
Русский язык
Російська мова.
🇷🇺🇺🇦.
I have a friend who is a multiethnic Russian; looks Asian, has a Ukrainian family name, Russian first, and is from the Russian Republic of Baskortostan.
And speaking of Belarus, I spoke to a nurse who's originally from there, and she thinks the Belorussian will soon become "socially" extinct by being just absorb as slang words into Russian, Ukrainian, and Polish.
I know Russian Ukrainians in Australia who have denounced their Russian heritage.
Crazy, my mother tongue is Spanish
Is she from Spain?
@@imrytebeehyneuit doesn't matter. The language is still called Spanish, regardless of the dialect. If you're talking about Heritage, then get ready to criticize.
I don't think SPANISH is going anywhere.There's so many countries speak it. (Spain, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, etc, etc).
Also more and more traveller's are picking up Spanish, a 2nd language.
It's such a beautiful sounding language, IMO.
Spanish isn't endangered by any means.
@@retnavybrat no one said it was
What about us RANGLONG'S our language is critically endangered as per UNESCO.
it's a five minute video chill
I think that there are many languages that are officially endangered that weren’t mentioned. I don’t think it was excluding any one of them, more pointing out that there are endangered languages and what can be done to help them by giving a couple of examples .
Why not either write a detailed reply in English about Ranglong and why it’s endangered and should be saved, or make a video in reply about Ranglong with an English introduction and then show off the beauty of Ranglong and include some subtitles? Do you want people around the world to learn it? or just be aware of it? People local to you? Use your platform to highlight it rather than just complain that it wasn’t included in the very small selection of examples given. Good luck!
Start posting videos of how to learn your language?
The English are at fault for making my native language (Irish) endangered, I wish I could speak Irish fluently
The only languages that will remain will be English/Spanish/French/Russian/Arabic/Chinese.
Also interslavic
@@xyeB what's that?
You neglected Hindi. That's spoken by more people than French and Arabic. Also maybe Spanish, but the number of Spanish speakers and Hindi speakers is kind of close. As far as Chinese, I assume you mean Mandarin, since there are many Chinese languages.
You are delusional. No languages remian. All evolve and grow. English is the dominant global language and it is growing forever, absorbing and mixing with all languages. Wth Spanish second. French and Russian will die out as irrelevant. "Arabic" and "Chinese" aren't languages but a cluster of languages.
Dear BBC,
Thank you for this video, however:
Please keep in mind the revival of Hebrew was a collaborative effort.
Yes Eliëzer 'ben Yehuda' Perlman was a prominent radical in the hebraïst movement.
But Ahad Ha'am, Haïm Biawik, David ben Gurion and the state of Israel contributed immensly to it;
Moreover, the native Hebrew speakers of Yemen, Palestine, and Morroco (who would speak it only in the liturgy)
And all the unnamed Hebrew teachers and students who keep this language living on a daily basis.
All deserve credit as well.
This myth of ' Individual Eliezer ben Yehuda, singlehandedly reviving the language' is apocryphal at best.
I doubt that it is historically acurate to claim such a feat. At worst, if I may say so; it is propaganda.
Welsh?
Welsh has many speakers, Cornish is endangered
lol
i will force my children into learning multible languages
Sindhi language is the most beautiful and richest
I speak portuguese and I could understand a little bit of kristang
Wow!
adding latinx did not help
bigot much?
Latinx is not a language.
@@retnavybrat its destroying a language and culture the feminine and masculine nouns el, un , una, la, el, o, a. Helping to endanger Spanish no?
@@3941602 So you mean the alleged "movement" to use the *_word,_* "Latinx", to replace "Latina" and "Latino"? Why didn't you say that in the first place?
I don't think "Latinx" is as prevalent as you believe. As far as I'm aware (and I realize I could be very wrong), only the US uses that term.
@@3941602 no. It’s not replacing or changing anything about the actual language - gendered nouns, different articles and endings depending on whether a noun is masculine, feminine (or neutral, depending on the language, but just masc and fem for Spanish)) are still very much a key part of the language even if you use the term Latinx, which you don’t seem to understand anyway. It is one word, used in American English to describe people of Spanish-speaking heritage (Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Honduras etc etc), used to replace saying Latinos and Latinas and includes people who are non-binary or genderfluid etc.
I believe the term latina can be used when speaking Spanish in America as well, and hence latinx could also be used, but I think I’ve come across it written down more than spoken.
One word that’s predominantly used in English is hardly going to threaten a language as widely spoken and as commonly used as Spanish , or even any particular dialect of Spanish.
People can be very quick to demonise things even though they don’t know what they are.
Its not about power and domination. Languages spoken by more people are simply more valuable as they give you access to communicate with more people. Learning English has brought huge amounts of people out of poverty. The danger is you're disconnecting people, shrinking their world.
What a stupid comment. DO you know you can learn several languages and speak 2, 3 or even more? Learning their ancestral language hasn't made people suddenly forget English
@@KateeAngel Well yes, If you believe English or another major language is only prolific because it's a language of repression, domination and power you will stop speaking it. Or teaching it to your children. -Ironic coming from you.
@@crown9413but you also have to recognize that the languages that are doing well are doing well for precisely that reason. You can communicate with more people if they live in countries that speak your language because they were formerly dominated. You can't divorce the survival of languages from the Imperial growth of those languages' homelands
read a book
This is a VERY ignorant comment. It assumes monolingualism as the default and multilingualism as a nuisance. It also assumes a language's only value is its utility as a large body of communication when languages also hold cultural value and you don't speak with everyone in the world 24/7. Cultural units will always exist and most endangered languages are repressed by imperialist structures anyway so they are bound to be morally freed because of anti-colonialism.
Don't forget my Great grandmother's language N/uu please please ❤❤
Basic education should be in mother tongue.
Iam Germán a d Yiddish just sounds like a dialect. I do understand it very well. Dont seems to be a proper languege...
Globalization moment
Language barriers is one of the reasons why people are so divided
Everyone can know several languages, ever heard of that?
I don't find languages a barrier, I find people's attitudes toward learning them or toward speakers of different languages to be the barrier
sure sure that's why lol
Not really. That's privileged monolingual ignorance. Switzerland is multilingual but very stable. While looking at the US, the epitome of stubborn monolingualism and even English exceptionalism, is it not divided? Please.
That's a naive take. Even people who share languages are divided.
meh............. this is just linguistical Darwinism ...... if they were so great of languages, they would be more popular...... not on the verge of extinction.
You seem like a positive person 😂
@@Danpungip remind me what the subject was? i could of sworn the subject was language..... not me... i think you might need to learn how to stay on topic.
It's almost like getting hit in school for speaking a different language makes it less popular...
@@kashubian_linguist its almost like, if some one hits you, hit the harder, and more.
@@ZOMBIEHEADSHOTKILLER It's almost like you can't hit your teacher as a child, because of social rules of the time and you'd get punished at home.
Personally I'm thrilled when a small language dies. The less languages and accents, the easier it is for everyone to communicate worldwide. The reality of the world is, the more people you can communicate with, the better off you are going to be. If I were a parent, the only languages I would try to get my child to learn are English, Mandarin Spanish, and Hindi. Unless at least half a billion people speak it, it is better off letting the language die out.
Yeah, I agree, the less languages there are the greater the number of people who will be forced to learn English, which I'm betting is your native language, and I'm sure it thrills you to know that cultures are dying due to assimilation and homogenization of our world 'cuz of people like you and those guys are now having to learn your native tongue so you don't have to learn theirs and communicate! This is what I call a sensible comment!!
@@programmingthings1770 When you know the most popular language on the planet, one that over a Billion and a half people know, why would you learn anything else.
I took Latin, and frankly, that was probably more worthwhile than a lot of modern languages spoken by a couple million people. Languages that most people choose not to speak are worthless languages.
@@dancahill9585 Yeah, of course, why would you learn anything else? Like, imagine going to, idk, Hungary, and trying to make an effort to learn the language, even just some basic stuff to, you know, show respect for the people there who are receiving you., nah, why bother am I right, they all speak my language. "They have to adapt, I don't". The reason I got so mad at this is cause I'm not anglophone, I'm portuguese, and thanks for calling my language worthless, btw, really apreciate it (I'm certain you won't understand why I'm mad, thanks to your Americentrist distorted way of seeing reality (I'm also going to bet you're from the US, let's see!)...
To be really honest with you, the worst part is not just that you said you think when languages die, it's good, 'cuz then everyone will eventually be subdued to the english language and become just like "civilized" american people, speaking "my language", the "best language", ain't that great? But that you really don't seem to understand the concept of culture. Listen, languages are a direct reflection of the culture of the people who speak it and often carry really useful nuances or knowledge within it (of course you've never thought about, it's called americentrism). What you're basically implying is that you feel happy that cultures are dying out, but I guess that shouldn't come as much of a surprise since just by looking at the US alone it's really interesting the really respectful way with which you treated your native people, those uncivilized dirty ol' pigs, thank god you taught them your superior language and completely extincted half of the languages spoken on the territory and also erradicated a lot of the costumes and cultures of the native americans, which have now been lost in time, such impure languages and costumes should've never existed in the first place, I'm glad americans (appropriate name, btw) were there to fix it!!
@@dancahill9585 Oh and I loved the fact you say those "languages spoken only by a couple million people are worthless" when having just said you took Latin 💀
@@programmingthings1770 Latin was the influential root of many language. It wasn't some worthless central European shithole like Hungary.
Minority langauges are just noise among the important and useful langauges, like english, french, and others. It's wrong if you dont understand this.
So boring approach 🤦♀️
Wrong.
Language connects us to ourselves and our culture, yes major languages are important but any other language is just as important.
maybe learn how to use the language properly?
Learning or being brought up in a minority language doesn’t stop you from learning and speaking other languages. In most countries it’s common to speak two or three languages.
These rarer languages link to the history and culture of a people, often a tribe or indigenous population that’s now being governed in a different language, whether that’s Basque, Catalan, Cornish, Gaelic, Navajo, Hawaiien, Xhosa, Yiddish, Maori, it doesn’t matter, but losing the complex oral histories and rich cultures associated with these languages would be disastrous and also risks losing some of the amazing knowledge of the natural world that we in the west are just waking up to that some of this knowledge could help us protect the planet and potentially give rise to new medicines.
Each and every culture is valuable and should be treasured and many are only now under threat because of colonialism and the spread of English, Spanish, French etc. Hundreds of languages have probably already died out across North and South America and Australia.
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