Showing posts with label language murder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label language murder. Show all posts

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Linguistic Genocide?

I have  ... um ... complicated beliefs about language death. Nonetheless, I thought this was a list worth reading: 10 Modern Cases of Linguistic Genocide.

HT: celiabcn, via twitter #linguistics.
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