Intercultural Human Rights Law Review
First Page
151
Abstract
The National Geographic Society's Enduring Voices project notes that about every two weeks another language dies, taking millennia of human knowledge and history with it. Writing in The Wall Street Journal, John J. Miller declared that the increasing pace of language death is "a trend that is arguably worth celebrating ... [because] age-old obstacles to communication are collapsing" and primitive societies are being brought into the modern world.2 However, many speakers of these languages lament their losses and see their identities threatened, as their mother tongues represent their links to their Creators. In the United States and many other countries of the world, indigenous languages are being threatened; especially by the schools their children attend, which are usually conducted in the national language and suppress, or, at best, ignore indigenous students' mother tongues.
Recommended Citation
Jon Reyhner,
Promoting Human Rights through Indigenous Language Revitalization,
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Intercultural Hum. Rts. L. Rev.
151
(2008).
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https://scholarship.stu.edu/ihrlr/vol3/iss1/6