Languages in Peril
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Languages in Peril - The Finno-Ugrics
There are thousands of languages that are in danger of becoming extinct. Here, we will be looking at three of them that are a member of the Finno-Ugric family: Veps, Nenets and Komi.
If you mention the Finno-Ugric language group to a language geek...
January / February 2013
Languages in Peril - The Rhaeto-Romance Trio
Even languages of the popular Romance family are in danger of becoming extinct, so we are going to look at Ladin, Friulian and Romansh, which are three closely related ones.
Most people know of the popular Romance languages like Latin, Spanish, French,...
March / April 2013
Languages in Peril - The Polish Connection
The Slavonic branch of the Indo-European languages have a number of well known languages, such as Polish and Russian. However, there are a few languages in that group that have struggled with being recognized as more than just dialects. Now, they even...
May / June 2013
Languages in Peril - The Salish Tragedy
Many native people around the world find themselves either left in almost total isolation or suppressed, with their younger generations joining a larger, modern world. When this happens, the language and culture of their people suffer and all too often...
July / August 2013
Languages in Peril - The Island Invasion
The Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages and are spoken on the island nations of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean. Most of these languages belong to smaller groups of indigenous people who have suffered from European...
September / October 2013
Languages in Peril - The Chibchan Family
Among the countries of South America, there was once a tribe of indians called the Chibchas. The lived in the high valleys surrounding the modern cities of Bogotá and Tunja in Colombia, having a population of over five hundred thousand. There they thrived...
November / December 2013
Languages in Peril - The Romanian Relatives
One of the less explored branches of the Indo-European languages is the Eastern Romance one, sometimes referred to as the Vlach languages. They developed in southeastern Europe from the local variant of Vulgar Latin.
The Roman Empire dominated this...
January / February 2014
Languages in Peril - Keeping Up With The Kartvelians
The Kartvelian language branch is a small one, with only an estimated 5 million speakers of its languages worldwide, and most people have probably never heard of it. The dominant language of it is Georgian, and even that language is not commonly talked...
March / April 2014
Languages in Peril - Decline of the Gallo-Italics
The Gallo-Italic languages make up the majority of northern Italian languages. They are Emilian-Romagnolo, Ligurian, Lombard, and Piedmontese. Sadly, they are all endangered, with the population of their speakers in decline.
Emiliano-Romagnolo
Linguistic...
July / August 2014
Languages in Peril - The Tribes of the Tamil-Kannada
In southern India is an area called the Nilgiri Hills, or the Blue Mountains. It lies in the Tamil Nadu region, at a junction of Karnataka and Kerala and is home to many indigenous tribes which have been there for thousands of years. Now, some of them...
March / April 2015
Languages in Peril - Yumans on the Edge
This month's languages in peril belong to Native American Indians. The Yuman branch of languages can be found among the people living in southern California and northern Mexico, along a strip of land called the Baja California Peninsula, which is officially...
May / June 2015
Languages in Peril - Scottish Gaelic
Throughout the last twenty years or so that I have spent learning languages, the languages I chose to learn were always for work or travel purposes. This changed last year when I decided to focus on something different. I had always wanted to learn...
July / August 2015
Languages in Peril - Talysh
Talysh is a Northwestern Iranian language with somewhere between 900,000 to 1 million speakers and is broken into three main dialects - Northern, Central, and Southern - spoken in parts of Iran and Azerbaijan on the western shore of the Caspian Sea.
Talysh...
September / October 2015
Languages in Peril - Cyprus' Language Revival Approach Problem
This article was published by Michael Keil in his blog "The Language Shack" in January, 2016 and is reprinted with his permission. The original post can be found here:
http://www.thelanguageshack.com/arabic-dialect-sannamalti/cyprus-language-revival-appro...
January / February 2016
Languages in Peril - The Decline of Sicilian
Off the coast of what most would call the "toe" of Italy is the island of Sicily. Its official language is Italian, like the rest of Italy, but it also has its own language, Sicilian, which is in danger of completely dying out, despite being spoken...
May / June 2016
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