GEOG 155 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Language Convergence, Standard Language, Placemaking
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Watched a tour of the british isles in accents . Talked about classes in geography that can go with your major. Watched a can you guess video; people with accents from different places read a sentence in english and you guess where they"re from. Opens up with group of natives praying over 2 linguists then killed a mouse. 2 linguistics travel and study those small languages. Dying language stems from children who stop using the language. Chulym: language in siberia that is dying: there"s only one research left (active 30 years ago) Mayor of original town of chulym spoke with them: spoke ill of chulym people. Went around w/mayor to see how many people spoke chulym. 2nd chulym speaker= monologue of woman who spoke chulym and cursed. 3rd chulym speaker= 90 year old woman who was deaf. Mayor turned out to be fluent in chulym: chulym was viewed as an ashamed culture. Children were forbidden to speak chulym in school.
