[Foundation-l] Priorities

[Yann Forget]

Gregory Maxwell a écrit :
> On 10/24/07, Jon Harald Søby <jhsoby at 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
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