I cannot cite anything, but there should be studies that show that even
though most people are "bilingual" or reported as "bilingual" in
their
regional language and another major language, they are more comfortable in
getting education in their regional language. I'm pretty sure that there
are such cases, and they should be given priority. Projects that are
focused on language revitalization per se should be given less priority
when resources are limited, even though it breaks my heart to say this.
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
2014-04-22 15:25 GMT+03:00 Chris Keating <chriskeatingwiki(a)gmail.com>om>:
I'd certainly take quite a broad view of which
languages fulfill our
mission. Certainly I wouldn't be comfortable with arguments as simple as
"All people who speak Y also read X, so there's no purpose putting
resources into Y".
Wikimedia UK does little work with Gaelic, but quite a bit with Welsh; I
wonder if Robin Owain reads this list? He's a good person to speak to about
this.
Chris
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <
amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
This is not quite correct. It's very hard,
but possible. But Wikimedia
alone cannot do it. Wikimedia can be one of the tools that are used by
the
cultural elite, which Milos brought up. Each of
these languages needs
people like [[Pompeu Fabra]] and [[Vuk Stefanović Karadžić]] and, dare I
say, [[Eliezer Ben-Yehuda]]. That's the sine qua non. Wikimedia is just a
tool - a very important one, but not the main one.
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
2014-04-22 14:20 GMT+03:00 Ting Chen <wing.philopp(a)gmx.de>de>:
> Hello Milos,
>
> welcome back.
>
> Basically I agree with your attitude, with one difference:
>
> I don't think that anyone can help languages survive. What we can do,
is
to help
conserve them.
Greetings
Ting
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