LLCU 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Language Revitalization, Extinct Language, New Media

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Languages, Literatures and Cultures
• Course: LLCU 110
• Professor: Bronwyn Bjorkman

Document Summary

Language extinction: a language is said to be extinct or dead when it has no (native) speakers remaining. Unesco: major evaluative factors of language vitality: six factors for assessing language vitality: Can you text in this language: materials for language education and literacy, e. g. books and educational materials at different levels. Examples of endangerment: celtic languages: welsh, spoken in wales (uk, currently spoken by about 19% of the welsh population (2011 census) Irish gaelic: spoken in northern ireland (uk) and the republic of ireland, currently spoken by 5-10% of ireland"s population, affected by english rule of ireland, and by the great famine of 1945-52, when 20- Latin vs. hebrew (an illustrative comparison: both languages spoken today - maintained as languages of religion. In the meaningful sense, latin never really died, it got standardized and became a language family: hebrew however ceased to be used in everyday lives, first revived as a language of religion and literature.