Speaking in Tongues: The History of Language Episode # 5 Life and Death - preview

[yoyoboy70]

why does it really matter if a language 'dies'. I find it better that all humans can communicate with each other, it removes the language barrier.

[SaveChinaTiger]

@yoyoboy70 Ones' language is ones' connection to the past and ancestors. The death of a language is the death of a culture

[lXBlackWolfXl]

@yoyoboy70 a language is heavily tied to its culture. each language can express certain cultural concepts that are unique to the culture of that one language. infact, when a language dies, its culture dies with it. yes, it would be far more practical if we all spoke one language, but that would mean that we'd all live in a simplistic world without any sort of diversity. most ppl dont believe that having a one-world language is worth the consequences.

[mphello]

Machine telepathy. Once we figure out how aliens telepathically communicate with humans - in ANY human language - then we'll be able to resurrect any dead language we want.

[makhdoomah]

سانئِيَمِ! سَدائِين ڪَرِين، مَٿي سِنڌُ سُڪارَ دوستَ! مِٺا دِلدارَ، عالَمُ سَڀِ آبادِ ڪَرِين؍

(شاھُ ڀٽائيؒ) “Oh Lord! May Thee Bless my Sindh with bounties in abundance,

Oh My Friend, my Beloved! Glorify Universe all with Thine exuberance.”

(Shah Bhittai: Translated by Ahmed Makhdoom)

مـُون کـي جِـيـَارِيـنِ، وايُـون وَڻـجـَارَن جـون؍

سَنهِينٸَ سوئيءَ سِبيو مۇن مارُن سِين مَنُ؍

Long Live Sindh! Long Live Sindhyata! Long Live Sindhi Nation

[ApolloPriest]

With the world at our fingertips, the world is shrinking into a unified culture and language. It won't happen overnight, but one world government will arise.

[Saralovesana]

I can speak tongues :D

[themooddisorders]

In any language:

Ohhhhh, ahhhhhh!

That sounds like sexual pleasure

[FarfettilLejl]

@Weissman33 Do you (will you) teach your kids English or you won't speak to them at all and hope that they will miraculously acquire any knowledge of the language?

The fact that my children will know the language I speak means that they'll be able to talk to the rest of my family - how does this limit their communication? How can I let them decide if they want to speak my language? When they're 18 and it's too late to learn to speak it fluently? You're right, you're a stupid American.

[ApolloPriest]

@FarfettilLejl Babies have an almost unlimited capability to learn languages until the complete formation of their cervical column (I think that is right). My niece will be born in April and I am going to teach her Japanese and Italian.

[FarfettilLejl]

@Weissman33 Were you referring to me in the first paragraph? When did I call you a racist? Do you even know the definition of racism?

[FarfettilLejl]

@Weissman33 I noticed that a lot (if not most) of such comments come from Americans. I wonder if your attitude towards languages and your foreign policy are somehow connected.

With regards to your statement about a community's will to be included with the rest of the world - have you ever heard of bi- or multilingualism? There's no need for me to forget my language in order to speak English or not to teach my children the language I speak in order for them learn other languages.

[damiecol85]

Nice videos, Thank you!

[Syncopatedprod]

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[TGDragon15]

i want to learn more....what are some other videos you would suggest as interesting or particularly enlightening? Thank you.

[oksigeno]

The preconception about Esperanto is so stupid, it is not based in reality but in desinformation about the subject. It is the only way to preserve the cultural identity of every people in the world and fight the "world illiteracy" ;-(

[iamjakesnow1989]

Except the exact preservation of identity is found within each language. How is a Hispanic to preserve his identity from an Anglo-Saxon if they both speak esperanto? They don't; they become intermingled.

[ghbarnes]

Thank you. It is a shame so few are aware of the issues surrounding endangered languages...