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social status In a multilingual situation, which are the other languages spoken
in the same area All these questions can be answered in series of articles that
fill several pages of a web site dedicated to the less-diffused language.
As mentioned above, in order to increase the number of its speakers, a whole
e-learning system can be built featuring sets of lessons for beginners, and other
sets for advanced learners. Beginners’ lessons include phonetic exercises, and
common sentences used in everyday life or typical social conversations, while
advanced lessons introduce more to the people’s culture and literature aiming
at a better mastership of the language. E-learning requires an important online
interactivity between a local staff and a growing number of faraway students, each
of whom should have a profile, a personal page and follow-up. Because everybody
has different reasons to take lessons in any given language, it is a good practice to
design the architecture of the whole course as a tree that allows different ways to
progress through the lessons. Thus, each student can choose the better way for
her/him, eventually with the advice of their teacher or mentor.
2.3. The Language’s Speakers
How many people speak the less-diffused language, either as native speakers or
as second language speakers Do all the speakers share the same cultural area,
way of life and custom A good description of these features provides content
of a high interest. This includes all aspects of the society’s life such as social
organization, administration, justice, labour, education, religion, philosophy,
arts, food, architecture, transport, leisure and entertainment, and so forth.
It is very common throughout the world that traditional communities develop
a close relationship with specific animals they depend on for their life. For
instance, a seal for the Inuits, a horse for the Mongolians, a cow for the Fulani,
the Tutsi or the Texan cowboys, a sleigh dog for the Greenlanders, a reindeer
for the Sami of northern Europe, a camel for the Sahara Tuaregs, a llama for the
Indians in the Andes, a yak for the highlanders of Himalaya and neighboring
regions, and so on. This special relationship between a specific animal and
a human being community generates a very rich diversity in culture and
civilization that all deserve being known to the whole mankind as a global
human heritage. Who else can reveal them better than representatives of those
traditional communities whose languages are usually less-diffused
Finally, a social network web site would give the opportunity to the most
committed supporters of the less-diffused language to enhance the language’s
life on cyberspace by using it to chat and exchange all kind of messages and
private data. By so doing, they automatically strengthen the vitality of the
language that will thus become more and more used and diffused.
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