Why Indigenous Languages Matter and What We Can Do to Save Them | Lindsay Morcom | TEDxQueensU
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- Опубліковано 22 кві 2019
- Lindsay Morcom explores why Indigenous languages are matter to linguists and to Indigenous communities. She begins with a discussion of the cultural and linguistic reasons that Indigenous languages are so important. She then describes why they are at risk of being lost, with a focus on Canadian historical and current social contexts, from the genocide of residential schools to modern policy developments. Finally, she explores what practical things communities can do to help make sure that Indigenous language revitalization is a reality. She also describes what is needed in terms of policy, education, and support to ensure that Indigenous languages survive to be passed on to the next seven generations. After all, any reconciliation that does not involve the preservation and growth of Indigenous languages and cultures is no reconciliation at all: it is assimilation. Dr. Lindsay Morcom (Algonquin Métis, Bear Clan) is an interdisciplinary researcher with experience in education, Aboriginal languages, language revitalization, and linguistics. She earned her Master’s degree in Linguistics at First Nations University through the University of Regina in 2006. She then completed her doctorate in General Linguistics and Comparative Philology as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in 2010. She now works as an assistant professor and coordinator of the Aboriginal Teacher Education Program at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
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0:24 indigenous languages in North America
2:09 colours
3:13 animate vs inanimate
4:41 Duncan Campbell Scott
8:30 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)
This video is from 2.5 years ago, and today, on the backend of Canada's first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, it is more pertinent than ever!.. As an immigrant in Canada I have vowed to invest effort, time, and resources to educate myself on the First Nations and try to give back some of what these communities have given us in this nation.
This was such a great presentation ❤️. Lindsay showed how Indigenous languages have a unique way of seeing the world.
Very informative. I know that I will refer back to this presentation multiple times into the future.
I would love to learn bungee (a language of the Metis people) unfortunately there's only a handful of speakers left and some of the language keepers are too ashamed of their culture and language to share it. It's sad.
I world love to be able to speak Indigenous Languages 🙏
The Old People say...."back when the People used to talk to the Animals/ Relatives back and forth"/
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Aboriginal language should be tough in Australian schools as second language 😊
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Moving and absolutely incredibly important talk.
Apparently, the 9th of august is indigenous-languages-day.
ബഹു നിലനിൽക്കണം. ❤️🙏❤️
At the Same Time Only One Language for MANKIND. ♥️🙏❤️🌹🌹🌹
Dated: 24/2/2023
A very well-framed talk, a great message, well done Lindsay!
Save the languages They have Rights
You are simply amazing!!!
Thank you ❤
Anyone else here cause of Bobert's English Trans 40S class?
Lol im here cus of a clas socials
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Massive informative video
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You cannot access a culture without knowing its language. It is a complex issue she brings up. Europeans should be aware that assimilation is how their societies function. This is somewhat true of most societies including Indian tribes. Intermarriage with Europeans was allowed by some tribes as long as the European adopted the culture and traditions of the tribe. The Metis people resulted from this.
“OH, SINLEY …” but for real though, awesome color-description-expansion.
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YEA. 🦉
Noice
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A linguist like her should know that those were dark blue and green and light blue and green. We can save dying languages without spreading phony linguistic theories about how language alters perception.
The difference is "dark blue" is still a type of blue, whereas you'd never say "green is a type of blue". Having different color categories doesn't affect perception, but it does affect how differences are parsed and expressed by speakers. Obviously, an English speaker can tell the difference between dark and light blue, but they are still just types of blue.
@@alejandromartinezmontes6700 agree! and she did say "One word answer"
That's what you took from.this video?
You forgot the new Zealand maori language the only active indigenous language used today it appears you know nothing at all
She is focusing on Canada, but you are right about Maori
lol, but you're the one saying they is only one active indigenous language??
She is talking about Canada also there is other active indigenous languages in the world used not just Maori
If a native group wants to move on from that language and speak a major language; that is their decision to make.
The only things that could be considered important about these minor languages are their history contexts and their connections to other languages.
Your first statement is somewhat true, although it sidesteps the fact that the Canadian state actively worked against the use and normal intergenerational transmission of indigenous languages (as most American states did in various ways).
Your second statement seems to me not only uninformed, but additionally also unfounded. To every speaker of the languages you seem to find appropriate to label as minor the language they speak is much more than just "their history contexts and their connections to other languages".
Before being dismissive about somebody else's heritage and cultural capital, you should at least try to argue your position, instead of just typing an unfounded statement, which just seems to index an inability to see the importance a language has to the speakers of said language.
Diversity is grounded in this world as you can observe it in the diverse representations of nature across the world. Diversity is also grounded in human thinking, as you can observe the diversity of thoughts in philosophical traditions across the world. Humankind need diverse languages to serve articulate their diverse thinking. Diversity in languages is as beautiful as diversity in nature as we can imagine how uniformity as opposed to diversity would not allow infinite diversity in thinking. As humans are all about their thinking and its extent, their being (existence) is also defined by the extent of their thinking. By learning other languages including indigenous languages (minor or major), we can extend our being and thinking as a human in a way that it is not possible in one language. If we can learn an indigenous language, then we can smile and cry by simply listening to a traditional folk music in this language that is never possible to get represented in that quality in our native language. In this way, language fades away and what remains is how that folk music extended our being and thinking as a human to appreciate the diversity and meaning of the life in a deeper sense that may have not been possible by just relying on the language we used to speak since we got born in it.
"move on" as if the language can find another ethnicity to speak it?
How often has it happened that an entire tribe/ethnicity truly *wanted* to switch to a "major" language? In almost all cases, the "old" language was beaten out of them, or those who spoke it in public were killed or at least left without education/career-options.
What "small" languages offer is intimacy/privacy, and the possibility to speak about things that several "major" languages don't even have words for.
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