Media: Endangered Langs/U.S. Nat'l Public Radio
| Submitter: |
Steven Bird
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| Submitter Email: | sb@unagi.cis.upenn.edu |
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On Friday 8 March, NPR Science Friday ran a program on endangered languages, involving Larry Kaplan (ANLC), Jerry Edmondson (UT Arlington) and myself. The show featured sound clips from indigenous languages in Africa, Asia and North America. Here is the description of the show from the Science Friday website: > You hear about endangered species all the time -- but when was the las > time you thought about languages being endangered? On the other hand, when > was the last time you heard someone speaking Woria, or Yevanic, or Areeba? > The decline of these and other languages around the world is closely > connected to the issue of globalization. In this hour of Science Friday, > we'll talk about the issue of endangered languages, hear some of them in > action, and find out why some researchers are working to understand and > preserve these dying tongues. > Some linguists predict that by the end of this century half of the > languages now spoken in the world will be extinct. How is a culture shaped > by its language? Does it really matter if we all speak the same language > one day? For more information, please see the website for the show: http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2002/Mar/hour2_030802.html The audio recording for the show is available in the NPR archive: http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/totn/20020308.totn.02.ram Steven Bird - Steven.Bird@ldc.upenn.edu http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/sb Assoc Director, LDC; Adj Assoc Prof, CIS & Linguistics Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania 3615 Market St, Suite 200, Philadelphia, PA 19104-2608 </body> |
| Issue Number: | 13.686 |
| Date Posted: | March 13, 2002 |
