"As linguistic diversity is destroyed, much more than language is lost: group identities, social structures, collective knowledge and individual life chances are also violently transformed."
Reposted from
Gerald Roche
"We need a global language rights movement". The article that I wrote under this title & published last year in @gscjournal.bsky.social has been viewed over 60,000 times & was among the journal's top three most-read articles for 2024. It's open access and free to read 👇
doi.org/10.1332/2752...
doi.org/10.1332/2752...
Comments
don't tell me that radically changing your own writing system means that a significant amount of knowledge won't be lost.