Ed and Cara discuss what is Language Death. With a language dying about every two weeks, preserving and recording these languages is of the utmost importance. We discuss different ways languages die (Gradual Language Death, Bottom-to-Top Language Death, Sudden Language Death and Radical Language Death). We also discuss dialect stigmatism and standardization in France.

@linguisticsever@edwardgiordano@carajoell[email protected]

References:

Wikitongues:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcMkmEzUE18

Langfocus on Language Death:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3qbYFvOHwk

France 24 Video on French Dialect Diversity Death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO5eq6dOPok

Language Magazine article on Mandarin language education:https://www.languagemagazine.com/2020/04/23/tibetan-language-phased-out-as-schools-switch-to-mandarin/

Afrikaans coverage:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dolLuO9hM5s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIWKAWxbjWs