A slight exaggeration, in that, like Manx, there already was a revivalist movement, but the child is the only *native* speaker.
I wish to do this with Occitan for having skipped two generation because of france hardcore linguicide policies. But I do not plan on having kids.
Great news, even though a bit exaggerated, as there are too few of our languages left and they are dying quickly. Hopefully can more languages be saved and revived.
(Of the >7’000 languages of the world are >2’500 endangered, according to UNESCO, so trying to save them is no small thing.)
Perhaps unpopular take, but languages are a tool for communication.
I would never straddle my kids with the pretty much useless tool of a dead language instead of one or two mainstream ones.
So, language preservation is great, but not the job of my children…
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A slight exaggeration, in that, like Manx, there already was a revivalist movement, but the child is the only *native* speaker.
I wish to do this with Occitan for having skipped two generation because of france hardcore linguicide policies. But I do not plan on having kids.
Great news, even though a bit exaggerated, as there are too few of our languages left and they are dying quickly. Hopefully can more languages be saved and revived.
(Of the >7’000 languages of the world are >2’500 endangered, according to UNESCO, so trying to save them is no small thing.)
Perhaps unpopular take, but languages are a tool for communication.
I would never straddle my kids with the pretty much useless tool of a dead language instead of one or two mainstream ones.
So, language preservation is great, but not the job of my children…