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NSF Documenting Endangered Languages Workshop,Durham, New Hampshire, October 2007
Nicholas OstlerFEL
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NSF Documenting Endangered Languages Workshop,Durham, New Hampshire, October 2007
Nicholas OstlerFEL
Foundation for EndangeredLanguages
Nicholas Ostler
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Foundation for EndangeredLanguages
FEL's mission is to"support, enable and assistthe documentation,protection and promotionof endangered languages".
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Languages aided by FEL
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Conferences11 conferences, in 5 continents, so far
organized by theme, not region,
attended by local experts and westernlinguists,
stressing solidarity among small languagecommunities
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Some Live Issues
It’s not so simple —
running your own show.
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Latin in the 6th Century BCThe Language of Western Europe:
Dominated all elite discourse from 3rd to16th centuries AD
Vulgar Latin > Romance langs, totallingalmost 800 million speakers: far biggerthan English, smaller only than Chinese
Could easily have been:
Eliminated in favour of Etruscan
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Latin in the 6th Century BCEarly Rome politicallydominated byEtruscans, e.g.
2 Etruscan Kings:Tarquinius
Many Etruscan nobles:Claudius, even Caesar
culturally dominatedEtruscan > Romanalphabet
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Long-Term Attitudes
Endangerment is NOT
“a Problem to be Fixed”
once and for all.
Each New Generation
will have to take responsibility.
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But as to the Future…
L. Frank Manríquez, working for Tongva (S. California)
“How can it be hopeless, whenthere is so much hope?”
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Foundation for EndangeredLanguages
Nicholas Ostler