Are dying languages worth saving?

Language experts are gathering at a university in the UK to discuss saving the world's endangered languages. But is it worth keeping alive dialects that are sometimes only spoken by a handful of people?

Languages spoken in this video are: Irish Gaelic, Maori, Berber, Guernesiais, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, English and Manx

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Foreign
• languages
• Irish
• Maori
• Berber
• Guernesiais
• Welsh
• Scots
• Gaelic
• English
• Manx

[HerEyesWereWild]

I would argue that Welsh/Cymraeg isn't a dying language, it's very widely spoken in north-west Wales and they can go through the entire education system, use Facebook, use public services and watch TV entirely in Welsh. Guernesiais (and its counterpart on Jersey) on the other hand, you sometimes hear very old folks speak it to each other but there's none of these things, not even a radio channel for it. More needs to be done to support it in communities!

[theworldvideos1]

@HerEyesWereWild You can say that with Cornish - There is not even Cornish signs in Cornwall and its not even taught in most schools !!!! Also there is no radio or TV channels for Cornish language !!!

[Bevelled]

Can anyone tell me what language is being spoken at 0.08? It's driving me mad, not knowing!

[theworldvideos1]

@Bevelled I think its one of the celtic languages, because gu- and shu- (first syllables) is used to greet someone

[elviolette]

I thought Welsh was making a comeback?

[theworldvideos1]

@elviolette Welsh is only spoken by 25% of the population in wales. Very unlikely it would be the most spoken language in wales in the future, unless welsh speaking populations produce huge birth rates !!!!!

[LuvZippy]

@HesseJamez But doesn't that make Modern Hebrew (spoken today in Israel) alive, while Ancient Hebrew (from the Torah) dead? Because a dead language is one where there are no native speakers so no one can know exactly what it sounds like. Aren't they two different languages now?

[HesseJamez]

@LuvZippy

Hebrew had no native speakers for 3000 years, but was always used by jews as a religious language like muslims use arabic, the language of the quran, even if their native tongue is turkish, malay or farsi.

A few houndred years before, the cathlics only spoke latin in church, which is still an official language in Vatican.

Hebrew became an official language by the foundation of Israel in 1948 though most Jews spoke yiddish - which -unfortunately - sounds like nazi-german.

[Mithez]

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[HesseJamez]

@Mithez

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[LuvZippy]

@HesseJamez Actually other languages like Manx, Sanskrit, Hawaiian (almost dead but never really) and Cornish were all dead. But the only one that people truly speak in everyday life and has native speakers is Hebrew, I think.

[GaeilgeSpraoi]

As we say in Irish "Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam" ;)

[GaeilgeSpraoi]

@necrostic56 Celtic isn't a language, rather it refers to a group of related languages, like how 'Latin' or 'Germanic' refer to languages such as French and German respectively. There are two groups within Celtic languages, Q-Celtic: Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic and Manx, and P-Celtic; Welsh, Cornish and Breton. I speak Irish and can understand Scottish Gaelic and Manx with little problem but Welsh is impossible, some words, though it wouldn't be too hard to learn due to similar grammar, etc.

[necrostic56]

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[Mithez]

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[Mithez]

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