Reading ''You can't Google it and get it back ''Why the death of tribal languages matters ''.

Reading You can't Google it and get it back ''Why the death of tribal languages matters ''. by Joanna Eede from Survival International
And then asking the question what can we do to save these treasures ?

The original article
http://www.survivalinternational.org/articles/3161-you-cant-google-it-and-get...

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• native tribes
• extinction
• language death

[YeOldeHeretic]

This is an excellent article. Thank you for talking about this Jasmine! I will try to make a video response as the comment section is not a fit enough forum. That or a blog post. :)

<3

Laurel

[Eopyk]

@YeOldeHeretic Sounds nice Laurel :) HannibalBarca ( Now SeleukosNicator323 ) before he took away his old channel hade a really good video response to this :) look foward to your blog or video response :)

All love from me Jasmine

[yasminevinck]

Learn in schools the original languages. Communication is important. Let all the different cultures. Learn about eachother. Let the town elders. Film about there cultures. And put it on the internet.

[Eopyk]

@yasminevinck Not a bad idea :)

All love from me Jasmine

[khalilahinjapan]

you have a beautiful voice. I could just listen to it all the time. Great info. I appreciate it. In my neck of the woods back home, the cherokee i think or maybe its the choctaw have reservations where they painstakingly try to gather and keep as much as their language as possible. My great grandfather was native american. He taught his children and grand children many great things about the earth. He passed down a lot of great knowledge.

[62netty]

Excellent video; subbed.

I think the only way to save these languages, which really are treasures of humanity, is teaching them to the children of the people speaking them. In many countries the majority language is still forced on tribal people by the school system. IMO schools in tribal areas should teach both the tribal- and the national language. Kids should learn their own heritage and get the opportunity to integrate in modern society.

[cosmicskydaddy1]

Excellent video.Thanks for posting it.

[SomethingSea1]

@yasminevinck Yeah, exactly.

[SomethingSea1]

Get someone who has a language that isn't on google to make videos talking about stuff. The important part is getting the data. Secondary is interpretation and clarity. You have an eternity for that once you have the data in long-standing form.

[GargamelGold]

@Eopyk By the way, anyone who thinks that we shouldn't care about these minor languages, just imagine how you would feel if it was your language that was going extinct. Its rather bigoted to just tell these people that our language is better, and that they should just except it. People who think that way, should be asked, "How would you like it, if things were reversed, and it was your language that was dieing out instead?"

[GargamelGold]

@Eopyk That article is as beautifully written as it is sad.