Schedule 72. StuTS

How dose modern language colonization look like today? To answer this question, I will present on the effect of westernization on indigenes languages in the Americas. Where I will look at how Spanish and English in the 21st century have led to language deaths around the central and northern Americas due to forced modern language colonization.

How dose modern language colonization look like today? To answer this question, I will present to you the effect of westernization on indigenes languages in the Americas. Where I will look at how Spanish and English in the 21st century have led to language deaths around the central and northern Americas due to forced modern language colonization. We will observe economic and cultural aspects on how westernization effected language changes to new generation.

Of the over 6,000 languages spoken throughout the world, 4,000 are spoken by Indigenes groups who are currently some of the most marginalized groups on the planet most likely to experience language endangerment or extinction. Current efforts in language preservation are no longer sufficient in the ever-growing vast colonization of the west in the 21st century’s globalization throughout the Americas. The west has indeed contributed to language protection like the Navajo; however, this method of language preservation is insufficient and costly and only allows a select few languages to be protected. Dorian, 1979 noticed in pidginization and creolization that correlated in language change and death created rivalries between the local language and the prestige language of that area (Dorian 2). A major cause of language death includes stigma, economics, and inequality that also affect the heritage of that culture lost through languages. The protection of these marginalized groups' cultural and linguistic history is just as important as other spoken languages. The study suggests that the west partaking in colonization in the Americas has created language stigma and economic disparity based on the prestige of western languages that has led to inequality to indigenes groups in the 21st century. How have western languages attributed to the marginalization of indigenous languages? As Language deaths increase in the Americas what are ways, we can preserve these marginalized languages? Is it too late to stop the de-stigmatizing of indigenous languages, and can we create a homogenous language acceptance?

Citation
Dorian, N. C. (1978). The Fate of Morphological Complexity in Language Death: Evidence from East Sutherland Gaelic. Language, 54(3), 590–609. https://doi.org/10.2307/412788

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Day: 2022-11-04
Start time: 14:15
Duration: 00:15
Room: Only online
Track: Historical Linguistics
Language: en

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