Theory of Knowledge - Course Companion for Students Marija Uzunova Dang Arvin Singh Uzunov Dang

no longr spokn, this knowldg may
ar
aus many languags hav no writtn
lost
Asurdly, many of ths languags wr
rord.
primitiv y mor industrializd
onsidrd
rar irumstans, a languag may
In
from a omprhnsiv writtn
rsurrtd
suh as Hrw, whih appard to
rord,
did twn 4 bce and th 1800s. Modrn
hav
and soial ntworking hav nald
thnology
languag spakrs and rsarhrs to
rar
with ah othr and txt mssaging has
onnt
to rord prviously unwrittn languags.
hlpd
projt alld Wikitongus has onntd
A
in many ountris to doumnt, on
voluntrs
spakrs talking in th diffrnt tnss of
film,
mothr tongu. Th projt has vn sought
thir
rord a rang of motional rgistrs y asking
to
aout thir hildhood, romanti livs,
spakrs
hops and goals. Th projt unovrd nw
and
nvr studid y linguists, as wll as
languags
languags that hav no rlation to othr
isolatd
languags. Ths projts ar notal for
known
urgny of thir ontriutors, and for good
th
Rportdly, on of th last spakrs of
rason.
dialt did just for h ould mt with
a
intrviwrs. It is possil that 500
Wikitongus
ould similarly “slip through thir
languags
in th nxt fiv yars” (Strohli 2018).
grasp
trms: Trur
Sarh
and maning
languag
to or rad th transript of this
Listn
with writr David Trur, who
podast
Ojiw, th languag of his popl,
larnd
an adult and has n involvd with
as
fforts vr sin. Disuss th
rvitalization
qustions.
following
Can som knowldg only arrid
1.
in a rtain languag?
forward
Trur xplors th rlationship twn
2.
and sovrignty.
languag
What is th rol of th nation in
(a)
and promoting languag,
prsrving
thrfor rtain typs of
and
knowldg?
Who an and should hlp to prsrv
(b)
languag if th stat is unwilling?
a
What rsponsiilitis rst with individual
3.
of highly ndangrd
spakrs
4II. Perspectives
ommunitis that first mad ontat.
language is a species, but most languages are
Every
habitats, linked closely to the physical habitats
also
which they occur.
in
2012)
(Klinkenborg
For discussion
Preserving a language
Ojiw
languags?
Making connections
Potowatomi and the grammar of animacy
Chapter 5 includes a case study of Potawatomi,
a language related to Ojibwe.
II.2 English as the global lingua franca
There are those of course who quite innocently ask, ‘Wouldn’t the world be a better place if we all spoke the same
language? Wouldn’t it be easier for us to get along?’ My answer is always to say, ‘Terric idea. Let’s make that
universal language Yoruba, or Lakota, or Cantonese.’ Suddenly people get a sense of what it would mean to be unable
to speak your mother tongue. I cannot imagine a world in which I could not speak English, for not only is it a beautiful
language, it’s my language, the expression of whom I am. But at the same time I don’t want it to sweep away the other
voices, the other languages of the world, like some kind of cultural nerve gas.
(Davis 2003)
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