Gregory Maxwell a écrit :
On 10/24/07, Jon Harald Søby jhsoby@gmail.com wrote:
Languages die because there is no education available in those languages.
Why would there not naturally be education available in languages that people were interested in using? I think you may have the causation reversed there. :)
I think that Jon is quite right here. For example, for many languages, because of lack of resources, there are no teacher on a subject, no good books (or no book at all), so people have to use another language, usually English, as a medium. So the vocabulary on that subject is not used and not taught.
That's how a language progessively disappears.
Regards,
Yann