This name comes from Aquiraine, a region in France. Both French and Occitain is taught in bilingual elementary and high schools called calandretas. Standardizing Languages In order to promote cultural unity, governments allowed the use of single dialects as a standard language. Languages used in the Western Hemisphere are different from those spoken in Europe like Portuguese and Spanish. In order to clarify the Spanish language around the world, there were meetings every week consisting people of the Spanish Royal Academy meet every week in Madrid to go over the rules of spelling, punctuation, and vocabulary. In 1994, it was agreed upon by the many countries that spoke this language that the common written language would be standardized. …show more content…
It has become the main way of communication and interaction for the whole world. This has put other cultural languages in danger, but the fate of these groups measures the distributed language and they have been protected and preserved. Endangered Languages Because of the inability to teach young children the language of their culture, the languages have begun to be endangered pulling through only by the effort of the community itself. The South Pacific and North America dominated by English and Latin America dominated by Spanish and Portuguese, are the regions with the most dying language. Endangered Languages in the South Pacific English is regarded as a promotional tool for cultural diversity in Australia while New Zealand considers it linguistic diversity which would be an important element for cultural diversity. These two countries established and maintained outposts of the British culture, preserving the use of the English language. Australia The restriction of immigration, especially Asia due to proximity, the country maintained the use of the British culture in the ninetieth and early twentieth century. Any international immigrant wanting to get into the country had to write 50 words of the European language until …show more content…
Only five of these languages are reawakening. Preserving Languages Since 2003, the United Nation has taken step to preserving the endangered languages. One of these languages are the of the Celtic origin. This language offered an insight of the heritage that are now speaking English. It was once spoken 2,000 years ago in what we now call Germany, France, and the British Isles. It can now only be found in remote parts of Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and the British Isles. Brythonic Celtic: Welsh The English migrated to Wales to work at cole mines and factories and soon dominated the Welsh language. With the help of the Welsh Language Society, they were able to preserve it. In 1988, Welsh became a compulsory subject in all Wales schools along with their history and music. It officially became to dominate language again by the United Kingdom in 2011 though 73 percent state they have no knowledge of the Welsh language. The knowledge of the Welsh is now a requirement to jobs, especially those in the public services and
As discussed in World Geography class, the world has become more globalized in the modern world due to the expansion of the internet and transportation for easier travel to areas of the world. Through the internet and tourism, the spread of more populous languages grows. According to the Globalization and Diversity textbook, through globalization, smaller cultures have a hard time catching up with the rest of the world; thus, these cultures must adapt to the dominate culture. The Tuvan, Aka, and Seri cultures cannot compete with English, for example, as the numbers of English speakers are significantly higher. In a world of globalization, the need for a common language, or lingua franca, is important for numerous cultures to
...to declining use, which continued even after it was reintroduced into schools in 1922 in an tempt to restore it the daily culture. Modern Irish language, very similar to Scottish Gaelic, despite its decline in use has never ceased to exert a strong influence on Irish consciousness. Although its use as a vernacular has decreased and is concentrated in several small Gaeltacht (i.e., Irish-speaking) areas, Irish is more widely read, spoken, and understood today than it had been during most of the 20th century. English is universally spoken and compulsory Irish in schools has come under some criticism from the business
Romeo and Juliet is one of the most famous love tales, but what if the play is not actually a tale of love, but of total obsession and infatuation. Romeo has an immature concept of love and is rather obsessive. Romeo is not the only person in the play who is obsessed though. Many people throughout the play notice his immaturities about love. Very rarely was true love actually shown in the play. attention. Romeo childishly cries to his friend, Benvolio because Rosaline will not love him back and says " She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow/ Do I live dead that live to tell it now" (I i 219-220). Romeo is stating that he's ready to die for loving Rosaline. This is exactly the same attitude Romeo had towards Juliet a little later in the play. During Scene I, Act ii, Romeo's friend, Benvolio tries to get him to go to the Capulet's party to help him get over Rosaline and meet other women Romeo gets very angry and emotional when he suggests this. “Now Romeo is beloved and loves again, / Alike bewitched by the charm of looks” (II 5-6). The chorus expresses Romeo’s juvenile way...
W. Ogwen Williams, “The Survival of the Welsh Language after the union of England and Wales: the first phase, 1536-1542,” Welsh History Review, Vol.2, no.1 (1964), pp.67-93
For this summary I watched a video called Voices of the World: The Extinction of Language and Linguistic Diversity. The video starts off with how people believe that there are about 6, 000 languages. David Crystal talks about how with all these different languages half of them are endangered of becoming extinct. Each different language offers a different point of view of the world and culture. He said that if different languages are lost then “we lose the meaning what is it to be human.”
In the United States, an emphasize in learning the dominant language, English for example, can inevitably put other languages within the country in extinction. In reality, there are many other spoken languages in the United Sates, like those spoken by Native Americans, that are becoming endangered because of the immensity of more used languages. One may ask, what is an endangered language? According to Michael Cahill (Bonvillain), who has studied and researched many different endangered languages around the world, a language is endangered when "it is in fairly eminent danger of dying out." Cahill states two ways to quickly identify when a language is on its way to becoming endangered. One is when the "children in the community do not speak the native language of their parents, and the other is when there are only a small number of people left in the ethnolinguistic community" that know how to speak the language (Bonvillain). In specific, the Cherokee language fits into the category of an endangered language in the United Sates because less and less speakers speak it and because it is taught less often to younger generations as well. Although Cherokee, a language containing its own rules in grammar, morphemes, syntax, and phonetics, was once a language spoken in vast areas around the United States by native peoples, the language struggles to survive albeit historical foreign attack and current domination of other languages such as English.
What is language death? Campbell (1994:1961) as cited in Janse, M and Tol, S (2003) describes language death as the loss of a language due to gradual shift in the dominant language. Language death sounds stark and to say language death is like saying a person is dying (Crystal, D:2000, 1). It is a protracted change of a state (Mufwene, SS: 2004, 204). What are endangered languages? They are languages that are in the process of dying (Janse, M; Tol, S:2003). They are languages that exist under the shadow of a dominant language and are on the verge of becoming extinct (Lewis, M et al: 2014). Endangered languages are a serious concern in which linguists have turned their attention too (Lewis, M et al: 2014). The death and endangerment of languages across the world is a major concern among linguists and anthropologists (Crystal, D:2000).
A nation of immigrants considers the pros and cons of giving English official status. New York Times Upfront .
Prior to Proposition 227, California’s programs for immigrant students included English as a Second Language, in which students were taught the English language for part of the day, and bilingual education, in which students took classes taught in their native tongues until their English improved.
Like many English-dominant nations, Australia is a culturally and linguistically diverse country. Over 400 different languages are spoken throughout Australia (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2011). Despite the fact that English is the dominant language in Australia, there is no dominant second language within Australian society. According to the 2011 Australian census, the most common languages other than English that are spoken by Australian are Mandarin, Italian, Arabic, Cantonese and Greek (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2012). The linguistic diversity within the whole country contributes to the language diversity in Australian classrooms.
We all like to think of ourselves as being good people. However, we quite often we are selfish. A person can be begging for help to save their way of life, and we won’t bat an eye. We will often think that the person begging needs to get with the times or that they are just whining over nothing. However when we ourselves need help, we become shocked and outraged when we receive no such thing. This is what Tom Law attempts to convey in his article “Cachau Bant: Mind Your Language”, where he asserts to the British population, the need to save the Welsh language and culture from fading away.
“Of the languages spoken at the present time in mainland Britain, Welsh has been here by far the longest,” (Price, 1984:94), so why, may we ask, has it come to be that it is only spoken by a minority of the Welsh population? We can see from the following table the extent to which the number of speakers of Welsh in Wales has declined since 1901:
The settlement of the British Isles by north Europeans followed by Norman French paints the backdrop to this essay which will focus on the period between the early 15th and 17th centuries, when a'standard' English language evolved. It will show that modern-day English is very different to that first introduced to the British Isles, but by identifying changes through time, its continuity can be demonstrated. Finally, it will suggest that present day English is in a position analogous to that which existed before the Norman invasion, when there were many varieties and dialects, and that this may lead to its decline as a global language, due to decreasing intelligibility. The beginnings of English can be found in the occupation of England from the 5th century by north and west German ethnic groups who brought their 'indigenous dialects' (Seargeant, P. 2012, p. 1). The Oxford English Dictionary defines English as 'Of or related to the West Germanic language spoken in England and used in many varieties throughout the world' (Seargeant, P. 2012, p. 7).
It has been adopted by different sectors making it one of the most used languages in the globe. This has been attributed to its effective nature, easy learning and rich history. However, conservative groups exist who argues that there should be global language since it may cause the emergence of superior cultures. Nevertheless, it is evident that different cultures ranging from the early polish immigrants, the African American community, the advertising and media will greatly benefit from the globalization of the English language. This will prove in the end that English is indeed a global
Even though there are advantages as well as disadvantages, the need for international language for communication, politics, economics and security is necessary and English is the best “language candidate” for that function. English is a language spread all over the world and it is used by millions and millions of speakers. According to my opinion, people should use English as a tool to communicate with all cultures but every country must keep their culture and language is a great part of it. In conclusion, language defines identity of a country and everyone should keep their language and explore others.