Battle to save languages

Hundreds of languages across the world are dying out. Valentina Jovanovski talks to the World Oral Literature Project about the desperate race to save them. Preventing the deaths of many languages, or at least slowing the process, is the massive challenge faced by researchers and academics at the World Oral Literature Project, which was established by Cambridge University in January 2009. It is an exceptional step in the right direction & everyone should be commended for their efforts so far.

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Beautiful Ancient Greek proudly returns!

This is just too exciting for words! Ancient Greek is going to be taught to school students as of September in England. My most favourite language finally makes a come-back. Any thoughts on this, anyone? What is your reaction to teaching a 'dead' language that hasn't been spoken in hundreds of years?

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UA Researchers Help Preserve Scottish Gaelic

Andrew Carnie, a UA linguistics professor, is heading a research project to analyze and document Scottish Gaelic, a language that is slowly being lost because natives more readily are learning and speaking English. This is a wonderful step in the right direction of saving the world's languages - when a language is lost, it's not just the language that dies, but a whole culture, an entire way of life dies with it. And while Scottish Gaelic has a lot of strange properties (quite strange to us English-speakers at any rate!), it's a wonderful language and we should commend the efforts being done to preserve this unique language.

Here's the link for the full article if you'd like to check it out further - http://uanews.org/node/32670

This is the sort of thing we need to be doing for our Australian Aboriginal languages which are fast dying out!

Still under construction...

As you might've guessed by now, I set this blog up for every and all things language. Now, I'm still in the process of organizing the blog and getting it set up; however, due to my busy work hours & university studies I don't usually have as much time as I would like. But, hopefully I'll have this blog up and running in the next few days or so.

So stay tuned for interesting language news, language quirks, etymologies, and much much more.

Thanks for reading!