最新英美报刊选读Unit I Focus Return Background Information How many languages are endangered? Most linguists agree that there are well over 5,000 languages in the world.A century from now,many of these languages may be extinct.Some linguists believe the number may decrease by half. Some say the total could fall to mere hundreds as the majority of the world's languages-most spoken by a few thousand people or less-give way to languages like English, Spanish,Portuguese,Mandarin Chinese,Russian,Indonesian, Arabic,Swahili,and Hindi.By some estimates,90%of the world's languages may vanish within the next century
最新英美报刊选读_Unit 1 Focus How many languages are endangered? Most linguists agree that there are well over 5,000 languages in the world. A century from now, many of these languages may be extinct. Some linguists believe the number may decrease by half. Some say the total could fall to mere hundreds as the majority of the world's languages— most spoken by a few thousand people or less—give way to languages like English, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Indonesian, Arabic, Swahili, and Hindi. By some estimates, 90% of the world's languages may vanish within the next century. Background Information
最新英美报刊选读Unit I Focus Return Background Information How do languages become extinct? 1.Outright genocide--When European invaders exterminated the Tasmanians in the early 19th century,an unknown number of languages died. 2.Languages become extinct when a community finds itself under pressure to integrate with a larger or more powerful group. 3.The people learn the outsiders'language in addition to their own--in Greenland,a territory of Denmark,Kalaallisut is learned alongside Danish 4.The community is pressured to give up its language and even its ethnic and cultural identity--ethnic Kurds in Turkey,are forbidden by law to print or formally teach their language.Younger speakers of Native American languages,as recently as the 1960s,were punished for speaking their native languages at boarding schools
最新英美报刊选读_Unit 1 Focus How do languages become extinct? 1. Outright genocide -- When European invaders exterminated the Tasmanians in the early 19th century, an unknown number of languages died. 2. Languages become extinct when a community finds itself under pressure to integrate with a larger or more powerful group. 3. The people learn the outsiders’ language in addition to their own -- in Greenland, a territory of Denmark, Kalaallisut is learned alongside Danish. 4. The community is pressured to give up its language and even its ethnic and cultural identity -- ethnic Kurds in Turkey, are forbidden by law to print or formally teach their language. Younger speakers of Native American languages, as recently as the 1960s, were punished for speaking their native languages at boarding schools. Background Information
最新英美报刊选读Unit 1 Focus Return Background Information What Can be done to Preserve Endangered Language Modern Hebrew was revived as a mother tongue after centuries of being learned and studied only in its ancient written form. Irish has had considerable institutional and political support as the national language of Ireland,despite major inroads by English. In New Zealand,Maori communities established nursery schools staffed by elders and conducted entirely in Maori,called kohangareo,language nests'. In Alaska,Hawaii,and elsewhere,this model is being extended to primary and in some cases secondary school. In California,younger adults have become language apprentices to older adult speakers in communities where only a few older speakers are still living
最新英美报刊选读_Unit 1 Focus Background Information What Can be done to Preserve Endangered Language Modern Hebrew was revived as a mother tongue after centuries of being learned and studied only in its ancient written form. Irish has had considerable institutional and political support as the national language of Ireland, despite major inroads by English. In New Zealand, Maori communities established nursery schools staffed by elders and conducted entirely in Maori, called kohangareo, 'language nests'. In Alaska, Hawaii, and elsewhere, this model is being extended to primary and in some cases secondary school. In California, younger adults have become language apprentices to older adult speakers in communities where only a few older speakers are still living
最新英美报刊选读Unit I Focus Return Warming-up Questions Look at the following pictures and the captions. Find out the facts and the reasons concerning the language extinction. Why Do Languages Die Out?
最新英美报刊选读_Unit 1 Focus Look at the following pictures and the captions. Find out the facts and the reasons concerning the language extinction. Why Do Languages Die Out? Warming-up Questions
Moonrise in San Antonio a small village in the Amazon Basin of Peru and the last thriving Iquito community
Moonrise in San Antonio a small village in the Amazon Basin of Peru and the last thriving Iquito community