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Subject: Shades of Shakahatche Author: Boyd [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 22:47:57 10/05/10 Tue I just read where researchers had discovered a previously undocumented language called Koro in northeast India which is spoken by only 800 persons. I remember in "Square One" that either Ellen or Debbie told Danny that at one point in time only 27 persons spoke Shakahatche. It points out that many of the world's languages are only barely surviving. Boyd http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/43753/ [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: Shades of Shakahatche Author: dotB [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 00:56:04 10/06/10 Wed >I just read where researchers had discovered a >previously undocumented language called Koro in >northeast India which is spoken by only 800 persons. I >remember in "Square One" that either Ellen or Debbie >told Danny that at one point in time only 27 persons >spoke Shakahatche. It points out that many of the >world's languages are only barely surviving. > >Boyd > > >href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/4375 >3/">http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/43753/ > You don't have to go that far -- in the province of Saskatchewan many of the tribes have a shortage of native speakers. That's especially evident in the smaller tribes, for instance amongst the Nakota, Dakota, and Lakota tribes, there are very few native speakers. Of the three dialects of their language there is one which had only 4 fluent speakers at one point in time, but I'm unsure which of the three it was. To my surprising I understand there were more native speakers in those three tribes on the Canadian side of the border than the US side -- at least at that time -- I'm not sure about now though.

[> Subject: Re: Shades of Shakahatche Author: Noelle [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 23:03:23 10/12/10 Tue There was a shocking statistic that I learned in one of my linguistics courses a couple of years ago: 90% of the world's languages (of which there are 6000-7000 of them at least) are spoken by 10% of the population. Thus, it stands to reason that most of the world's languages are unknown to most of the population, are not prestige languages, and are likely to die out within the next century or so. A tragedy that few people recognize or acknowledge.