Hoi, This does not negate the relevance of maintaining information about the languages and the cultures reflected by them.
A new project has to be relevant for its own reasons. It has to be relevant to the people who will care for it. Thanks, GerardM
On 18 February 2013 23:35, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On Feb 18, 2013 10:27 PM, "Kevin Behrens" kevin_behrens@hotmail.de wrote:
Language is identity! Would you like to tell those People that it is not
bad when they lose their language. As I mentioned, I am a member of a linguistic minority, too, and I would feel like my human rights where taken if someone tells me I should learn another language because mine is not so much worth. Language is culture and is human right, everybody has the right for his language.
What people are you talking about? While there have been cases of languages being forcefully suppressed, generally speaking they die because no-one wants to speak them any more (because they aren't useful for communicating any more, which is the primary purpose of a language). Whether or not you speak a language is entirely up to you. Whose rights are being violated when it's just a matter of individual choice? _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l