Lily Gladstone's Acceptance Speech Shows Why We Need to Save Endangered Languages
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Lily Gladstone's Acceptance Speech Shows Why We Need to Save Endangered Languages
"There's some neuroscientific evidence that being multilingual is really, really good for your brain. And it's good for one of them to be your cultural language, because that's good for your self esteem and emotional health."
Mary Elizabeth Williams • Lily Gladstone's Acceptance Speech Shows Why We Need to Save Endangered Languages
about 80% of the world's ecologically sensitive territory is in indigenous hands. The languages of the people who live there tend to contain vocabulary that encodes knowledge of that ecosystem. In fact, when paired with land management, language revitalization can improve conservation efforts."
Mary Elizabeth Williams • Lily Gladstone's Acceptance Speech Shows Why We Need to Save Endangered Languages
In a world in which any skill that can't be leveraged for the maximum benefit of capitalism is seen as a dubious enterprise, it can be difficult to make the case for languages that are not widely spoken. Yet their continued existence matters, for a variety of compelling reasons. "First of all, it's just the right thing to do," says Daniel Bögre... See more
Mary Elizabeth Williams • Lily Gladstone's Acceptance Speech Shows Why We Need to Save Endangered Languages
"The linguist Kenneth Hale from MIT said that losing a language is like dropping a bomb on a museum."
Mary Elizabeth Williams • Lily Gladstone's Acceptance Speech Shows Why We Need to Save Endangered Languages
Virtually every endangered language is endangered because its community was systematically targeted by genocide, forced cultural assimilation, some kind of political marginalization. On a practical level, language diversity encodes the sum of human cultural, historical and ecological knowledge. As a species, we lose knowledge when we lose
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Biden's administration had a grant that was awarded to around 200 tribes and through tribal organizations to help them preserve language."