Practice Essay , Saving Dying Languages
Is enough being done to preserve language ?
Language plays an important role in the progress of nations. It 's preservation has been an important topic of discussion between the intellects. This has led us to a question whether adequate efforts have been made to save endangered languages. Some people have opinion that there had been sufficient hard work for the preservation of languages such as master apprentice program, documentation programs and full immersion schools system while others disagree with this as they think that people have less confidence in speaking their own language due to economic globalization. This essay argues that not enough has been done to save endangered languages due to rapid rate of language loss and insufficient funds.
Many methods were adopted to save the minority languages. Master-apprentice program was one of them which was started by Leanne Hinton in 1992.It focused on native American languages in California. Gibbs(2002) said that it worked on 25 languages. This program was spread over six months. It also helped people in getting the jobs as a speaker who had good command in the language earned 3000$ to teach a younger relative who was also paid. A student would learn 60 hours in a month. Certainly, these efforts contributed in the preservation. Secondly, documentation also contributed in saving the endangered languages. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics could accommodate all aspects of language For example, grammars, dictionaries, and recordings. Bird, Gary F.Simons of SIL International and many other researchers built "open language archives community" (OLAC) to reduce the inconsistencies . Therefore, these initiatives can slow down the language loss, because these methods do not assure to bank all languages.
If we go into the depth of the methods, however, there are several examples which prove that the efforts were insufficient. Firstly, the funds were very much less so that the linguists could pay complete
Language plays an important role in the progress of nations. It 's preservation has been an important topic of discussion between the intellects. This has led us to a question whether adequate efforts have been made to save endangered languages. Some people have opinion that there had been sufficient hard work for the preservation of languages such as master apprentice program, documentation programs and full immersion schools system while others disagree with this as they think that people have less confidence in speaking their own language due to economic globalization. This essay argues that not enough has been done to save endangered languages due to rapid rate of language loss and insufficient funds.
Many methods were adopted to save the minority languages. Master-apprentice program was one of them which was started by Leanne Hinton in 1992.It focused on native American languages in California. Gibbs(2002) said that it worked on 25 languages. This program was spread over six months. It also helped people in getting the jobs as a speaker who had good command in the language earned 3000$ to teach a younger relative who was also paid. A student would learn 60 hours in a month. Certainly, these efforts contributed in the preservation. Secondly, documentation also contributed in saving the endangered languages. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics could accommodate all aspects of language For example, grammars, dictionaries, and recordings. Bird, Gary F.Simons of SIL International and many other researchers built "open language archives community" (OLAC) to reduce the inconsistencies . Therefore, these initiatives can slow down the language loss, because these methods do not assure to bank all languages.
If we go into the depth of the methods, however, there are several examples which prove that the efforts were insufficient. Firstly, the funds were very much less so that the linguists could pay complete
References: : Gibbs, W. Wayt. 2002. “Saving Dying Languages.” Scientific American 287:78–86. Knight, Jonathan. 2000. "Lost for words." New Scientist Print Edition