• Languages do not die. They are killed off.
• No language is primitive.
• No language is better or worse than any other language.
• There is now a lot of research that shows losing one’s language, especially in Indigenous communities, results in
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• No language is primitive.
• No language is better or worse than any other language.
• There is now a lot of research that shows losing one’s language, especially in Indigenous communities, results in
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psychological, emotional, and spiritual damage.
If you want to know more about linguicide and language shaming, then click on the above link. Happy reading!
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If you want to know more about linguicide and language shaming, then click on the above link. Happy reading!
#linguistics
• All languages are beautiful. When we realise this, we will stop language shaming.
• If we lose our language, we lose our history.
• Learn as many languages as possible but do teach your language to your child. It will make your child rooted and it is very likely that, other things being equal, such a child will better succeed in life.
• Learn as many languages as possible but do teach your language to your child. It will make your child rooted and it is very likely that, other things being equal, such a child will better succeed in life.
• Mother tongues are a window to the world, a living dictionary, a living archive.
• Teaching your mother tongue is the best gift you can give to your child. If that is taken care of, languages will survive. Every parent, no matter where you are, no matter what you do, even in mixed marriages, teach your ancestral languages to your children.
• Our ancestral language is our cultural umbilical cord from which we all are deeply nourished at many levels.
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