ISBN : 9782296566965
REVITALIZATION OF ENDANGERED LANGUAGES : QUECHUA IN THE ANDES
Serafín M. Coronel-Molina
According to contemporary linguistic research, currently there are nearly seven thousand languages in the world; it is believed that more than half of these will disappear in the next century. These languages are called "endangered languages", "sleeping languages", "tongues in agony", "moribund languages", etc. The vast majority of languages that fall into these categories are the indigenous languages. Therefore, it is essential to revitalize and document them to prevent their extinction, and to safeguard the cultural and linguistic diversity of our planet. Documentation and revitalization are two faces of the same coin because they inform each other substantially, so they need to be carried out hand in hand....