Having their say: with digital recorders and DVDs, young people are saving endangered languages.

Colorlines Magazine - Vol. 12 Nbr. 4, July 2009

Lydersen, Kari
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Having their say: with digital recorders and DVDs, young people are saving endangered languages.

UNESCO LISTS ALMOST 2,500 LANGUAGES worldwide as "endangered," meaning they are at risk of falling out of use and even disappearing as fluent native speakers die and younger generations fail to take up the language. A bulk of endangered languages are the tongues of indigenous groups who have been colonized or encroached upon by a dominant culture and forced or coerced to give up their native language. In the past, students were beaten for spea...



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