Aria John Saleh

VANISHING VOICES: A POTENT THREAT TO GLOBAL LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY AND CULTURAL HERITAGE

Language death and cultural disappearance are two sides of the same coin which are faced with the same irresistible forces of human migration and homogenisation of world civilisation. Language is endangered when its speakers cease to speak it or use it in selected domains. The paper identifies: attitudes, cataclysms, conflicts, education etc as res...