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11:14am June 1, 2014

big-gadje-world:

fuckyourracism:

whoobin:

madblackgirl:

so when we gonna talk about how western imperialism and colonialism plays an extremely large role in this

Hawaiian language was almost extinct because America made it a law to cut all Hawaiian language from public school when they illegally annexed Hawaii and thus making Hawaiian parents feel their children won’t make it in the world so they stopped speaking Hawaiian to their kids and forbid them to learn it (giving spankings if heard at home etc) and making English the default language.

In Australia, before colonization by the British, the continent was home to around 250 indigenous languages.

Today, there are only 20 in constant use.

Here’s a picture of North American languages before colonization.

Here’s after.

“On language maps of North America depicting Native American languages, part of the southeast has a giant blank spot, where languages disappeared so quickly and completely that nothing at all is known about them. The loss of these languages before linguists could document them is lamentable. However, it is to an even greater extent, incomparably horrifying what this giant blank spot represents in terms of lives lost and cultures destroyed.” - Language and Authority: Why languages disappear
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- J

The Romani & Domari languages are also considered endangered. Entire dialects have been lost & there is a great deal of assimilation pressures in Europe, which forces many Romani families to raise their children only speaking the dominant language. However, some dialects are considered a lot more stable than others, but enough dialects are quickly losing speakers & several have already become extinct. x x x

fuckyourracism:

whoobin:

madblackgirl:

so when we gonna talk about how western imperialism and colonialism plays an extremely large role in this

Hawaiian language was almost extinct because America made it a law to cut all Hawaiian language from public school when they illegally annexed Hawaii and thus making Hawaiian parents feel their children won’t make it in the world so they stopped speaking Hawaiian to their kids and forbid them to learn it (giving spankings if heard at home etc) and making English the default language.

In Australia, before colonization by the British, the continent was home to around 250 indigenous languages.

Today, there are only 20 in constant use.

Here’s a picture of North American languages before colonization.

Here’s after.

“On language maps of North America depicting Native American languages, part of the southeast has a giant blank spot, where languages disappeared so quickly and completely that nothing at all is known about them. The loss of these languages before linguists could document them is lamentable. However, it is to an even greater extent, incomparably horrifying what this giant blank spot represents in terms of lives lost and cultures destroyed.” - Language and Authority: Why languages disappear

Add to this with more examples if you can.

- J

The Romani & Domari languages are also considered endangered. Entire dialects have been lost & there is a great deal of assimilation pressures in Europe, which forces many Romani families to raise their children only speaking the dominant language. However, some dialects are considered a lot more stable than others, but enough dialects are quickly losing speakers & several have already become extinct.
x x x