‘Climate change’ could ’cause languages to die off’ – ‘May affect language diversity’ – ‘Top cause of language loss’ – Do you understand?
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World Economic Forum: Can climate change cause languages to die? “The increase in natural disasters related to climate change may affect language diversity.”
Babel Mag: “Climate change is also jeopardizing the survival of many of the world’s most at-risk language groups. As these communities are displaced as sea-level rise and climate changes disrupt their farming and fishing industries, it is certain that small languages will find it harder to survive as their speakers separate. spread around the world and forced to assimilate into local cultures. “
Via: Marc Morano – Total climate inventoryApril 21, 2022 6:27 pm with 0 comments
https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/climate-change-language-death
Does climate change accelerate language loss? Biodiversity and linguistic diversity are linked in ways that may surprise you.
VIA STEP KOYFMAN
Excerpt: The impact of climate change on the death of language
There are about 7,000 languages spoken in the world today, but many half of them expected to become extinct by the end of this century. Currently, half of the world’s languages have less than 10,000 speakers each. When you add up all the numbers, only about 0.1% of the world’s population currently keeps half of the world’s languages alive.
Of course, this cannot be attributed to any cause. Genocide, policy, repression, and economic pressure all play a role in our increasingly globalized world. If speaking your native language doesn’t make financial sense to the community because every possible job opportunity requires you to speak the more populous national language, securing institutional support in schools and in the media to secure the regional language will be much more difficult. passed on to younger generations.
However, climate change is also jeopardize survival of many of the world’s most at-risk language groups. As these communities are displaced as sea-level rise and climate changes disrupt their farming and fishing industries, it is certain that small languages will find it harder to survive as their speakers separate. spread around the world and forced to assimilate into local cultures.
And even as certain communities try to stay in place, there’s still that “you can’t go home again” feeling as your local environment becomes increasingly unrecognizable to you.
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It’s not hard to see how climate change is directly accelerating language death around the world. But is it possible that it works both ways? Does the extinction of languages accelerate the decay of the environment?
This is a claim that may be a bit harder to prove, but it’s worth considering. Many indigenous languages are imbued with a profound (and often unwritten) knowledge of the natural ecosystems of which they are a part – plants, animals, and all the ways humans have learn to coexist in that matrix over the years.
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https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/12/could-climate-change-cause-languages-to-die/
World Economic Forum: Could climate change cause languages to die?
Excerpt: An increase in disasters related to climate change may affect language diversity. One good example is Vanuatu, an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, with recent sea level rise. …Researchers have just discovered Dusner language, where only a handful of speakers remained, when floods in 2010 devastated the Papua region of Indonesia, where the village of Dusner is located. Fortunately, some speakers have survived and the language can be recorded.
https://theconversation.com/the-impact-of-climate-change-on-language-loss-105475
Impact of climate change on aphasiaPublished: November 26, 2018
Snippet: It is difficult to predict the future for any particular language. While some minority languages will thrive for many generations to come, many of the world’s languages are moving toward extinction within a generation.
One stressor that can be the bottom line for some communities is climate change. Many small language communities located on islands and coastlines are vulnerable to storms and sea level rise. Other communities settled on lands where increases in temperature and fluctuations in rainfall could threaten traditional farming and fishing practices.
These changes will force the community to relocate, creating climate change refugees. As a result, the dispersion of people leads to the separation of language communities and increased exposure to other languages. These changes will put more pressure on languages that are already struggling to survive.
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