[When we come across discussions, reports, and events regarding vanishing languages, we who are vulnerable to losing our languages, albeit slowly, tend to think or behave like it's not going to happen to us. Yet we continue to behave in ways that actually accelerate the imminent loss of our languages: we crave to learn other …
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“Languages are increasingly viewed as scarce national resources,” wrote Joshua A. Fishman, noted linguist and author. “Speech and writing communities the world over are not only expected to exert themselves on behalf of their own languages, but to feel remiss if they fail to do so when their language resources are threatened.” He views languages …
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HOW did Tagalog become the basis of the national language? I went home and looked the history up. Just out of curiosity. During the Spanish time government bureaucracy was conducted mostly in Spanish. However, given the persistently low level of knowledge of Spanish among the commoners (partly due to the lack of universal education until …
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[The following is an excerpt from Joshua A. Fishman's "Reversing Language Shift". As Firth McEachern pointed out in the previous post below, the La Union LGU effort to reverse language (Ilocano) decline would be multisectoral as in the Catalan model, and that in spite of its limitations in mother tongue transmission, as Fishman asserts here, …
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Hi Joe, Here are the first 9 parts of the column I have been writing for the Northern Star, the SunStar Baguio, the Observer, the Weekly Banat, and the Ilocos Herald. It explores issues of language discrimination, language threats, the benefits of multilingualism, the need for language preservation and reform, and suggested actions to be …
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Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Assistance to Threatened Languages By Joshua A. Fishman The Firth McEachern published observations (“No longer cool to speak Iloko,” “Kankana-ey being replaced by Iloko?” “Customer is always right, right?” “Losing the mother tongue,” “Quest for a multi-culture,” and “Diversity shock“) prompted my friend (a linguistic grad student), Sherma E. Benosa …
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In a commentary, “Intellectualizing a language,” in the June 13, 2009 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Dr. Ricardo Ma. Nolasco, associate professor of the UP Department of Linguistics and adviser for multilingual education initiatives of the Foundation for Worldwide People Power Inc., made the following statement: “…we will never be able to develop our …
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmLYo8zQOVs&hl=en&fs=1] In UNESCO’s “Advocacy Kit for Promoting Multilingual Education: Including the Excluded“, the question was posed: “Can quality education for all be achieved when education is packaged in a language that some learners neither speak nor understand? This is the situation faced by many children from ethnic minority groups when they enter formal school systems–the …
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