{"id":839,"date":"2009-03-06T05:22:39","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T13:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=839"},"modified":"2009-03-06T05:22:39","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T13:22:39","slug":"endangered-languages-endangered-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/endangered-languages-endangered-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered Languages, Endangered Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p_ko\">An interesting issue of the UNESCO Courier on disappearing languages:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p_ko\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-840 lazyload\" title=\"langues_260\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/langues_260.jpg\" alt=\"langues_260\" width=\"260\" height=\"260\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 260px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 260\/260;\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p_ko\">With the death of Marie Smith Jones, the Eyak language of Alaska (United States) died out last year; Ubykh (Turkey) vanished in 1992 with the demise of Tevfik Esen\u00e7. Some 200 languages have become extinct in the last three generations, according to the new \u201cUNESCO Atlas of the World&#8217;s Languages in Danger\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Courier\u2019s feature, published in honour of International Mother Language Day (21 February), focuses on this worrying trend. When languages become extinct, not only words disappear, but ways of seeing and describing reality; we lose valuable knowledge and worlds of thought.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/portal.unesco.org\/en\/ev.php-URL_ID=44603&amp;URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&amp;URL_SECTION=201.html\"><strong>Read the editorial<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<ul id=\"url_topic\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/portal.unesco.org\/en\/ev.php-URL_ID=43980&amp;URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&amp;URL_SECTION=201.html\">Add to our guest book<br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/portal.unesco.org\/en\/ev.php-URL_ID=44713&amp;URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&amp;URL_SECTION=201.html\">Readers comments<br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr class=\"separation\" \/>\n<ul id=\"ul_url\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/portal.unesco.org\/en\/ev.php-URL_ID=32126&amp;URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&amp;URL_SECTION=201.html\">Subscribe<br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr class=\"separation\" \/>\n<div class=\"news_list\">\n<h4>Each language is a unique world of thought<\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/portal.unesco.org\/en\/files\/44549\/12345510041entretien.jpg\/entretien.jpg\" alt=\"entretien.jpg\" width=\"100\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/>Australian linguist Christopher Moseley explains the crucial importance of preserving languages and presents the main innovations of the just-released third edition of the UNESCO \u201cAtlas of the World&#8217;s Languages in Danger\u201d.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/portal.unesco.org\/en\/ev.php-URL_ID=44550&amp;URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&amp;URL_SECTION=201.html\">More<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"news_list\">\n<h4>The monkeys, the scorpion and the snake<\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/portal.unesco.org\/en\/files\/44549\/12345474471mali.jpg\/mali.jpg\" alt=\"mali.jpg\" width=\"100\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/>Stone is petrified speech, water is language laughing, the sown seed, a promised word: every element of reality is an integral part of Toro Tegu, currently spoken by some 5000 Dogons in the north of Mali.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/portal.unesco.org\/en\/ev.php-URL_ID=44553&amp;URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&amp;URL_SECTION=201.html\">More<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"news_list\">\n<h4>Seriously speaking : what is Ch\u2019ti?<\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/portal.unesco.org\/en\/files\/44549\/12348880731chti.jpg\/chti.jpg\" alt=\"chti.jpg\" width=\"100\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/>The French film \u201cWelcome to the Land of Ch\u2019tis\u201d has been making Europeans laugh recently. But the reality is not so funny: Ch\u2019ti, which is a variation of the Picard language spoken in northern France, has become a social stigma, or at best a quaint museum piece.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/portal.unesco.org\/en\/ev.php-URL_ID=44551&amp;URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&amp;URL_SECTION=201.html\">More<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"news_list\">\n<h4>Wuthing we gwen tull?<\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/portal.unesco.org\/en\/files\/44549\/12350556441Pitcairn.jpg\/Pitcairn.jpg\" alt=\"Pitcairn.jpg\" width=\"100\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/>The same language is spoken on the islands of Norfolk and Pitcairn (Pacific), yet it has developed differently in the two places, separated by 3,907 miles. A native Norfolk islander tells the curious story of this language, which came into being in the late 18th century and split into two 70 years later.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/portal.unesco.org\/en\/ev.php-URL_ID=44552&amp;URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&amp;URL_SECTION=201.html\">More<\/a><\/div>\n<h4>An epidemic is threatening indigenous languages<\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/portal.unesco.org\/en\/files\/44549\/12348884361haboud.jpg\/haboud.jpg\" alt=\"haboud.jpg\" width=\"100\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some languages are spoken by very few people but are still very much alive, while others have been preserved by the isolation of their speakers. Marleen Haboud from Ecuador explains these apparently paradoxical phenomena.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/portal.unesco.org\/en\/ev.php-URL_ID=44554&amp;URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&amp;URL_SECTION=201.html\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/f5668637-ea15-4bbc-9955-38f0af4a040c\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img lazyload\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" data-src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=f5668637-ea15-4bbc-9955-38f0af4a040c\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting issue of the UNESCO Courier on disappearing languages: With the death of Marie Smith Jones, the Eyak language of Alaska (United States) died out last year; Ubykh (Turkey) vanished in 1992 with&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[315,696,736],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-eyak-language","tag-tevfik-esenc","tag-unesco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}