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In December of 2022, British contemporary artist Es Devlin installed a public sculpture in concert with the Endangered Language Alliance, “Your Voices,” outside of New York’s Lincoln Center. The work responds to anthropologist Wade Davis’s observation: “Every language is an old growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an entire ecosystem ... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
For the inhabitants of the United States, the anglicization of the world is, just as Churchill predicted, a “grand convenience.” It allows them to do business in any part of the world. It also helps their ideas and ambitions to resound. Films, books, shows, music, and advertisements flow easily out of the United States, so that even the remotest fo
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La relación entre lengua e identidad es intensamente personal. Dado que la lengua está íntimamente ligada a la identidad, a menudo se utiliza como guardián, y se avergüenza a los jóvenes latinos por estar “americanizados” o se considera que rechazan la cultura de origen
Linguistics, American University • El Idioma Provoca Una Crisis De Identidad en Los Hijos Y Nietos De Inmigrantes Latinos
As decolonization proceeded, it became clear that many countries shared that goal. At independence, India took Bharat as an official name and Hindi as its official language, demoting English to subsidiary status and promising to drop it entirely by 1965. The British colony of Singapore set Malay as its official language in 1959, when it gained self
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