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Slide 5: "When a language dies, the divine things, stars, sun and moon, the human things. to think and to feel, are no longer reflected in this mirror." "Cuando muere una lengua, las cosas divinas, estrellas, sol y luna,las cosas humanas, pensar y sentir, no se reflejan en eso espejo."
Slide 6: SIDEBAR Culture = Language Language = Culture “YOU are the LANGUAGE you speak.”
Slide 7: THE “LANGUAGE” PATIENT  ______ LIVING LANGUAGES ____ HAVE LESS THAN 100 SPEAKERS EVERY DIES” ______ A “LANGUAGE  
Slide 8: THE “LANGUAGE” PATIENT  ____ % OF ALL LANGUAGES HAVE DIED IN THE LAST 500 YEARS. ___ % OF ALL LANGUAGES MAY DIE THIS CENTURY ___% OF THE WORLD SPEAK JUST ___% OF THE LANGUAGES  
Slide 10: DIAGNOSIS  SMALL POPULATION OF SPEAKERS NOT SPEAKING THE PARENT’S LANGUGE Michael Cahill, SIL Committee for Endangered Languages.  CHILDREN
Slide 11: THE ILLNESS “A language is endangered when its speakers are using it in fewer and fewer communicative domains and/or are ceasing to pass it on from one generation to the next. Language endangerment may be the result of external developments and policies (whether military, economic, religious, cultural, or educational), or it may be caused by internal factors, such as a community’s negative attitude towards its own language.” (UNESCO)
Slide 12: THE CAUSE GENOCIDE  LINGUICIDE  NATURAL DISASTERS  LANGUAGE SHIFT / POPULATION DRIFT (Displacement)  SOCIO-ECONOMIC (POLITICAL) 
Slide 13: IMPORTANT? IF A LANGUAGE FALLS IN THE FOREST DOES SHOULD ANYONE CARE?
Slide 16: WHY CARE?  DIVERSITY OF THE ETHNOSPHERE  KNOWLEDGE  IDENTITY  REPOSITORY OF HISTORY  FUTURE PRESERVATION
Slide 18: THE CURE (language revival) POLITICAL EMPOWERMENT HUMAN (LANGUAGE) RIGHTS PRESERVATION (UNICODE) CHANGE IN HUMAN “MIND SET”
Slide 19: Learn a new language and get a new soul. Czech Proverb
Slide 20: There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth Elias Canetti
Slide 45: Interesting Websites         http://linguistlist.org http://thelinguists.com www.nativevillage.org www.ethnologue.com Foundation for Endangered languages www.ted.com / www.rosettaproject.org www.universe.dailylife.com (Jonathan Harris) http://fsckorea.ning.com (additional info.)
Slide 46: http://eflclassroom.ning.com