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Match the statements with the correct person A-E( each letter represents a person ) 4. Saving languages from extinction is not itself a satisfactory goal. A Michael Krauss B Salikoko Mufwene C Nicolas Ostler D Mark Pagel E Doug Whalen Lost for Words In the native America Navajo nation, which sprawls across four states in the American south-west, the native language is dying. Most of its speakers are middled-aged or elderly. Although many students take classes in Navajo, the schools are run un English. Street signs, supermarket goods and even their own newspapers are all in English. Not surprisingly, linguists doubt that any native speakers of Navajo will remain in a hundred years' time. Navajo is far from alone. Half of the world's 6,800 langauges are likely to vanish within two generations-that 's one language lost every ten days. Never before has the linguistic diversity shrunk at such a pace. At the moment, we are heading for about three or four languages dominating the world, says Mark Pagel, an evolutionary biologist. 'It is a mass extinction, and whetehr we will ever rebound from the loss is difficult to know.' Isolation breeds linguistic diversity: as a result, the world is peppered with language spoken by only a few people. Only 250 languages have more than a mollion speakers, and at least 3,000 have fewer than 2,500. It is not necessarily these languages that are about to disappear. Navajo considered is not just the number of speakers, but how old they are. If it is spoken by children, it is relatively safe.The criticallt endandered languages are those that are only spoken by the elderly, according to Michael Krauss, director of the Alassk Native Language Center, in Fairbanks. Why do people reject the language of their parents? It begins with a crisis of confidence, when a small community finds itself alongside a larger, wealthier society, says Nicolas Ostler, of Britain's Foundation for Endagered Languages, in Barh. 'People lose faith in their culture,' he says. ‘When the next generation reach their teens, they might not want to be induced into the old traditions.’. The change is not always voluntary. Quite often, governments try to kill off a minority language by banning its use in public or discouraging its use in school, all to promote national unity. The former US policy of running Indian reservation schools in English, for example, effectively put languages such as Navajo on the danger list. But Salikoko Mufwene, who chairs the Linguistics department at the University of Chicago, argues that the deadliest weapon is not government policy but economic globalization. Native Americans have not lost pride in their language, but they have to adapt to social-economic pressures, he says. They cannot refuse to speak English if mots commercial activities are in Englsih. But are languages worth saving? At the very least, there is a loss of data for the study of languages and their evolution, which lies on comparisons between languages, both living and dead. When an unwritten and unrecorded language disappears, it is a loss to science. Language is also intimately bound up with culture, so it may be difficult to preserve one without the other. If a person shifts from Navajo to English, they lose something, says Mufwene. Moreover, the loss may also deprive us of the different ways of looking at the world, says Pagel. There is mounting evidence that learning a language produces physiological changes in the brain. Your brain and mine are different from the brain of someone who speaks French, for instance, Pagel says, and this could affect our thoughts and perceptions. 'The patterns and connections we make among various concepts may be strcutured by the linguistic habits of our commnunity. So despite linguist's best efforts, many languages will disappear over the next century. But a growing interest in cultural identity may prevent the direst prediction from coming true. The key to fostering diversity is for people to learn their ancestral tongue, as well as the dominant language, says Doug Whalen, founder and president of the Endangered Language Fund in New Haven, Connecticut. Most of these languages will not survive without a large degree of bilingualism, he says. In New Zealand, classes for children have slowed the erosion of Maori and rekindled interest in the language. A similar approach in Hawaii has produced aboout 8,000 new speakers of Polynesian languages in the past few years. In California, apprentice programmes have provided life support to several indigenous languages. Volunteer apprentices pair up with one of the last living speakers of a Native American tongue to learn a traditional skill such as basket weaving, with instruction exclusively in the endangered language. After about 300 hours of training they are generally sufficiently fluent to transmit the language to the next generation. But Mufwene says that preventing a language dying out is not the same as giving it new life by using it every day. Preserving a language is more like preserving fruits in a jar, he says.
A.
Michael Krauss
B.
Salikoko Mufwene
C.
Nicolas Ostler
D.
Mark Pagel
E.
Doug Whalen
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