Why Revive A Dead Language? | Interview with Prof. Ghil'ad Zuckermann

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[福白汪]

I would highly recommend anyone interested in the topics in this video watch Langfocus’s video on learning a language out of passion vs. popularity/utility. Personally, I find learning obscure endangered languages to be hugely rewarding. To anyone considering, I would recommend Irish, Navajo, or Dyirbal!

[akhileshjhaIndia]

As usual...compelling! When I was young in school, my teacher told me that India had 1562 languages/dialects.... now in 2018...we do not know how many of them survive today...but what we know is that hundreds of them have vanished.... reason.... farming becoming loss-making profession and people compelled to seek 'jobs'...! Yes, job! you can get job only if you know English! So, in the remotest of the villages where people aspire for education, they send their wards to 'English School'...incidentally most of the 'English Schools' are business enterprises... It is a very complex problem Professor!.. and solution is not going to be simple either...

[Kurdedunaysiri]

He said italian when talk about language eating. In Italy they are eating so many languages like Lombordian, Sicilian, Venetian, Occitan, Sardinian, Arberesh, Greko, Frulian, Ligurian, Bavarian, Piedmontese, Arpitan... It is clasic thing for modern native states. This speech recorded in Thessaloniki which most of the population is Pontic but now they are mostly speaking Greek...

[stefandollinger]

Ghil'ad, I applaud your for this short video. You manage to convey a very complex phenomenon in an incredibly concise and very clear way. Well done! I will use it in my teaching from now on. It's elegant and it saves me the about 90 minutes I often "waste" to drive home that point - and not as clearly as you. In short, you produced for the topics of linguistic hegemony, colonization and linguacide the "mamihlapinatapai" for which I'd use my figurative 26 words, while you only use that one ;-) (if that part doesn't make sense to you, dear reader, watch the entire 4:37 min video now!)

[PiaraisMurphy]

I hope Irish and Esperanto don't die

[NearonTC]

The part you said in the beginning about linguicide in Australia against us Indigenous people is spot-on and hard facts. The colonists back then didn’t think long-term how it would affect us in modern society, down the road. No wonder why we have one of the highest rates of suicide, crippling addiction, incarceration, low self esteem, etc., in the world. If the settlers would’ve simply let us be bilingual in both our native tongue and English, maybe our communities wouldn’t be how they are now. I for one agree strongly about reviving our languages amongst our communities so that our people’s mental health and overall well-being will see a positive change for our people in modern society. Which is why I’ve been relearning my people’s mother tongue again. Thankfully I have family further north in Queensland that still speak it fluently, but other areas do not have any remaining speakers. This will make it more tough to relearn, but it isn’t impossible. This is one way we can heal our intergenerational trauma.

[juvasul]

This is an amazing beatiful, simple and powerful small video lecture. I like it so much and shared also to Võro people in the FB group "Võro kiil!.

[Ggdivhjkjl]

@2:57 That word should be taught in every high school.

[alicephoebelousintern]

calling “dead languages” Sleeping Beauties is so cool

[inducto]

Nice edit. Which video editing program was used for it?

[poyoAesthetic]

This language got revived im happy about that :)

[Hampter-mr]

WE MUST REVIVE DEAD LANGUAGES BY A.I. AND WE MUST TEACH IT IN DUTY

[displosomia]

okay tbh i've never heard of vilamovian and i'm polish

[pantelispantelis]

Can you revive the anatolian languages

[justinleemiller]

Elsässisch in France. You barely ever hear it in Strasburg anymore, but people still speak it.

[Kurdedunaysiri]

I promise myself and my people i will protect mine and other minority languages. I will study to preserve them from death until my death

[Essetkol]

Only an old woman can speak Yagan, I hope the language doesn't become extinct.

[SergioSanchez-ogms]

Languages evolve, we have tO accept that, but from a scientific point of view is OK, English wasn't the same 2000 thousand years ago, and it won't be the same 2000 years latter, the analogy about our mothers is something too much to compare with a language . It is like, imagine that a Spanish ommelete is not a Spanish ommelete anymore, because you put some more ingredients in, a language changes over time. I love languages but I also know that life and so other things in life such as languages are constantly changing. But if you want to retrieve a language to study from a scientific point of view is very good to study the evolution of lanGuages .

[matthewdevereux]

Just met the Prof at LinkedIn. This is a great interview. @devereuxmatthew