Headlines abound with the plight of endangered minority languages around the world. Read a few of these and you'll see some common themes: the rising number of languages dying worldwide, the distressing isolation of individual last speakers, and the wider cultural loss for humanity.
indigenous culture—was not influential on a fundamental measure of well-being, suicide rates:
"While culture [and language are] important, it is the integration of social, family, education and training, job creation and other elements that bring cohesion to a community. Indigenous youth suicide must be addressed as a community by forming community cohesion." Simply adding your ancestral language as a new school subject isn't very helpful if your school is falling down, you're not eating well, your people are
, or you don't have adequate political representation. To think anything much can be solved just by performing CPR on a minority language is to ignore how complicated human society is, and how many different simultaneous needs we have.If it's possible to intervene but not really help, is it also possible to intervene and cause harm? Let's look at a couple of examples.has been momentous, countering centuries of denigration and decline.
Welsh is currently taught in schools across Wales, and that's good news for families, be they Welsh- or English-speaking. Some schools use Welsh a bit, some a lot, and an
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