Daniel Everett, “Endangered Languages, Lost Knowledge and the Future”
From Long Now Foundation
via Foratv
Excerpt from Transcript
"First way is that the speakers actually die, and so if the speakers of a language die out the language is going to die, the Piraha almost died out in the early 60s, they got down to 80 or 90 because of a measles epidemic, and eventually it come back up to 350 people, but that is still a very small number. Another reason language die is because the speaker stop speaking, speakers lived but they shifted to another language."
http://fora.tv/2009/03/20/Daniel_Everett_Endangered_Languages_and_Lost_Knowledge#chapter_01
"Professor Daniel Everett, author of Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes, discusses the importance of preserving dying languages. He describes his experience living with the Piraha people in Brazil, and explores what Piraha, both the people and the language, can teach us about human nature".
Normally, there would be an embedded screen but the code was matched to a different program so, please use the link for the interim enlightenment during the next hour and a half.
Enjoy,
Peter Lott Heppner
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