Ainu Research Paper

The language I choose to write about comes from right here in the United States! Currently it is endangered with about 3,500 speakers and can be classified as Uto-Aztecan It is used amongst an Indian tribe in Utah. Since it is a Native American language, there are major efforts in order to keep it alive and keep it moving from each and every generation. There is currently a Ute Language Policy that highlights laws and regulations that protect the Ute language. In this order there are roman numerals with specific headings that tell you what topic goes with the protection of the language. In the beginning is speaks about the language being integral to their culture; how “the Ute language is a living and vital language that has the ability to

Ken Wiwa presents several ideas pertaining to language and culture within his essay, Get Beyond Babel. Wiwa explains that every language has a chance of dying out over time. For any language to survive through years of societal changes, it must be adapted so it can be used to embrace other cultures, new technology and new perspectives. Wiwa presents the concept that language is the same as culture. I do not agree with this concept because I believe that culture is carried by the people, not by the language.

The loss of languages within minority groups is a global phenomenon. It is an ongoing, fast moving process among indigenous groups in the United States. A vast majority of Native American vernaculars are nowadays only spoken by elders and as a growing numbers of children merely speak English in those modern days, the languages of their ancestors will soon be irretrievably lost as a result of language shift. According to Krauss (1996), only 20 of approximately 175 Native American languages have speakers across generations. What caused this loss of languages? Why? How can it be prevented?

Uluru is the biggest rock in the world. It is 9.4km if you walk around it and about 345 metres high if you climb it. It's 3.6km long, 2km wide, and is a roughly oval shape. It's made of arkosic sandstone and is renowned for the way it changes colour in the light and is particularly spectacular at sunrise and sunset.

5. Some of the key challenges/issues facing the workers in the education industry include pay deregulation, pension cuts and a punishing increase in workload.

“Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else” says racer Ayrton Senna. For a little over 100 years the International Motor Contest Association (IMCA) has been running races. The IMCA is one of the most popular associations to race dirt track. Dirt track racing provides a pastime for hundreds to thousands of people worldwide.

It is tragedy that a language full of rich history and culture could be left with less than one hundred native speakers worldwide. The language of Haida from the Haida tribe in southeast Alaska has been through the Russian and American takeover of Alaska, as well as education and religion changes. Today the language is critically endangered and the community is heartbroken about the decline of language usage. The future of Haida holds revival programs in hope of the language returning.

As language develops over the years languages some suffer the times and become a thing of the past. There are approximately six thousand spoken languages that are facing extinction (Kravitz). I question the importance of preserving ancient languages especially because I grew up in a family who speak Pennsylvania Dutch. Pennsylvania Dutch, a dialect of German, is known as the wandering Dutchman language and is spoken exclusively in northeastern Pennsylvania by mostly Amish and Lutheran Reformists. As my Great Grandmother and Grandparents are some of the last to speak exclusively Pennsylvania Dutch I am lucky enough to be able to hold a conversation in the dying language. My question is should these languages including ‘folk’ languages be preserved

Language is the most powerful tool for human life. Language let human connect to each other. Language gives a lot of benefits to human, but many languages becoming dying language. “There are more than 6,000 languages in the world. We lose one every two weeks; hundreds will lose within the next generation.

threatened or endangered, and which are the languages that have the fewest speakers in the

In Vanishing Voices by Russ Rymer, the author gives readers an in depth overview of the significant loss in the number of languages over the years. “One language dies every 14 days. By the next century nearly half of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken on Earth will likely disappear, as communities abandon native tongues in favor of English, Mandarin, or Spanish. What is lost when a language goes silent?” he asks. A major argument Rymer includes in his essay is that languages are seeming to “compete” with one another. Parents children who speak tribal languages encourage their children to break away and learn to speak major languages such as English, Spanish, or

For those languages which have no written form, when the language dies off, so does the accumulated knowledge and history of the culture. Sadly, indigenous languages around the world are dying off at an alarming rate. It is estimated that nearly half of the languages spoken today are likely to die off within the next century if steps are not taken to preserve those which still exist.

Over centuries we have seen the amount and complexity of languages all across the globe reduced. If this trend continues, we could see the number of world languages potentially reduced from 6,000 to 600 in the future. Colonization and urbanization has led to the abolishment of languages spoke by smaller and less dominant civilizations. McWhorter uses the Native Americans in North America and the Aboriginal

Unvalidated sources of health information (abbreviated as USHI for the purpose of this paper) like social network sites (SNS), blogs, forums and the likes proliferate the internet. Patients, relatives of patients, or friends of patients utilize these platforms for a plethora of reasons ranging from guidance on major and minor health decisions to the desire for support from other users. Support, as used here, could be emotional, social or financial and is usually gained by patients through the sharing of their personal medical issues, asking questions or sharing of their experiences with other users [12]. The use of the Internet and USHI for guidance on health decisions is increasing [1, 13]. Existing literature identifies patient's trust in

I want to advise you on what steps you can take to revive the languages, but first let me explain why I think keeping these native languages is important. It is important that you preserve these languages because they are more than just words. They are a part of their culture. Language defies how we communicate with one another, and it is a powerful thing. Speaking a language can stem back to your culture and ancestors. Having a common language allows us to talk to each other, express our feelings and thoughts, and it is something we have in common with other people. Languages can become endangered if people do not have them in common. People will not speak a language if no one else knows what they are saying. People have started to learn English and adapt to the world around them to communicate with others. Their original languages can go to the wayside if less and less people know the language and can understand it fully. I think as people got older the younger generations want to speak English like everyone else, and they have lost their original language. There are less and less people that understand the language, and eventually the last of them that do understand the language will be gone. There will be no one left to understand the language or be able to teach