Indigenous languages matter but all is not lost when they change or even disappear

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 July Indigenous languages matter but all is not lost when they change or even disappear Indigenous languages matter but all is not lost when they change or even disappear 01/07/2021 | 4 MINS UNESCOΓÇÖs International Year of Indigenous Languages recently came to an end after a year of celebration of linguistic diversity. And with a ΓÇ£decade of Indigenous languagesΓÇ¥ now under consideration, itΓÇÖs a good time to review what these celebrations mean. When the media report on the crisis of endangered languages, the view thereΓÇÖs an associated loss of culture, identity and even memory, is widely expressed. While there are very good reasons to deplore the loss of small languages, assuming this loss condemns cultural identity may be unhelpful and reductive to those who have already shifted away from their heritage language. To test the claim ΓÇ£losing language means losing cultureΓÇ¥, I carried out linguistic research on Kriol, a postcolonial language now spoken by thousands of Indigenous Australians in the north of the country. I found that regardless

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 July Indigenous languages matter but all is not lost when they change or even disappear Indigenous languages matter but all is not lost when they change or even disappear 01/07/2021 | 4 MINS UNESCOΓÇÖs International Year of Indigenous Languages recently came to an end after a year of celebration of linguistic diversity.

And with a ΓÇ£decade of Indigenous languagesΓÇ¥ now under consideration, itΓÇÖs a good time to review what these celebrations mean.

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