Comments on: Savage Minds Around the Web http://savageminds.org/2009/12/21/savage-minds-around-the-web-48/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:06:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brian Barker http://savageminds.org/2009/12/21/savage-minds-around-the-web-48/comment-page-1/#comment-627690 Brian Barker Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:21:13 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=2965#comment-627690 With regard to the campaign to save endangered and dying languages, can I point to the contribution, made by the World Esperanto Association, to UNESCO's campaign. The commitment was made, by the World Esperanto Association at the United Nations' Geneva HQ in September. A glimpse of Esperanto can be seen at www.lernu.net With regard to the campaign to save endangered and dying languages, can I point to the contribution, made by the World Esperanto Association, to UNESCO’s campaign.

The commitment was made, by the World Esperanto Association at the United Nations’ Geneva HQ in September.

A glimpse of Esperanto can be seen at http://www.lernu.net

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]]> By: Liz Coville http://savageminds.org/2009/12/21/savage-minds-around-the-web-48/comment-page-1/#comment-626826 Liz Coville Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:26:27 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=2965#comment-626826 Re dying languages article, to be sure, these efforts at preserving, revitalizing, and documenting such languages raise skeptical questions like which ones get "saved" and which don't? which speakers are privileged and which are marginalized? for whose benefit is this effort? and haven't people tried misguidedly to "preserve" and "inscribe" cultures and languages for ever? But why the dismissive "lovely earnestness"? In cases where only a handful of speakers remain, and where the community is willing, why not applaud linguists for documenting as much as possible? Also why conflate the question of revitalizing them with documenting them -- aren't there good arguments for documenting them without expecting them to be revitalized? Re dying languages article, to be sure, these efforts at preserving, revitalizing, and documenting such languages raise skeptical questions like which ones get “saved” and which don’t? which speakers are privileged and which are marginalized? for whose benefit is this effort? and haven’t people tried misguidedly to “preserve” and “inscribe” cultures and languages for ever? But why the dismissive “lovely earnestness”? In cases where only a handful of speakers remain, and where the community is willing, why not applaud linguists for documenting as much as possible? Also why conflate the question of revitalizing them with documenting them — aren’t there good arguments for documenting them without expecting them to be revitalized?

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