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In langauge Death, Crystal define the real meaning of his title. He stated "if you are the last speaker of a langauge, your language-viewed as a tool of communication- is already death". It makes completly sense. Think this way if you know a language and you have no one to speak it with then is the language alive? No. Crystal gave an example of two languages that are dead. Kasabe (in Mambila regionn of Bogon) died on 5th november 1996 and Ubuh( west Caucasian language) died on october 8th 1992. Both languages died when the moment the last speaker died.
thanks for the post Hyshatu,
ReplyDeleteThis author makes an interesting connection between people and language. To me this means that language is a collaborative, social process.