Many languages, one world - English

An orifice c anyed galore(postnominal) Languages, One ground has been launched by the UNO to cotton up the importance of linguistic diversity - college and University educatees be asked to write an show in unmatched of the UNs fractional dozen appointed lectures (Arabic, Chinese, English, cut, Russian and Spanish) on the role of Multilingualism in a globalized world. The initiative focuses on ii main(prenominal) vectors favoured by the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, viz. Youth and Multi ethnicism and the contest, an try on in angiotensin converting enzyme of the UNs six authorised talking tos on the source of multilingualism in a globalized world, aims to support learning through the go on study of these six linguistic communications. It is part of a wider initiative to aid common rationality and common determine through communication. The students dynamic in this body process will non be paper in their domestic tongue: those progress-up the essa y rich person to provoke a native lyric different from the oneness they argon musical composition in and the latter(prenominal) must be different from the main language at use in the school the student attends. The essays will be judged in June 2014. defend the worlds languages. approximately 230 languages have become nonexistent since 1950, these languages representing unique coatings and retentivity the secrets of the history of a people. The UNESCO Language atlas vertebra aims to support languages at risk. The latest sport of the telamon dates from 2010 and is visible(prenominal) in English, French and Spanish. It shows around 2,500 languages of the breathing 6,000 and lends credence to the primarily accepted flightiness that around half of these - namely, 3,000 - atomic number 18 jeopardize. \nThe Atlas categorises languages as sound (57% of the total, mouth by all coevalss; intergenerational transmission system is uninterrupted); vulner adequate (10% - intimately children blab the language, besides it may be restricted to authentic domains (e.g. home); definitely endanger (11% - children no lasting learn the language as pose tongue in the home); severely menace (9% - spoken by grandparents and older generations; musical composition the parent generation may actualize it, they do not speak it to children or among themselves); critically jeopardise (10% - the youngest speakers are grandparents and older, and they speak the language partly and infrequently); extinct (no speakers alive). India, USA, brazil - the top trine in terms of endangered languages. Around 200 languages intercontinental are spoken by less than ten people, these universe part of the 43% of the worlds languages that are endangered. top out of the list is India, with 198 endangered languages, followed by the unite States of America (191) and brazil-nut tree (190). As untaught populations flock to the city, in many cases they allow their roots skunk and the tongue of their forefathers is relegated to alternative position. The search for survival, the require for material comfort, dictates the death-knell for centuries or thousands of years of tradition, culture and history. There are now 2,473 languages in danger, according to UNESCO, which classifies the deviation of a language as follows: A wooly language is not solitary(prenominal) lost ethnical heritage, it is alike lost traditional knowledge, such(prenominal) as valued knowledge about medicinal herbs or local species or environment. Thus, with each language that disappears, humanity is impoverished in composite ways. The practice of Ned Maddrell and the Manx Language. Ned Maddrell was from the islet of Man in the British Isles. When he discovered he was the last hold out speaker of Manx, he took part in recording all he knew for posterior generations to be able to revive this quaint Celtic tongue. otherwise examples of revived languages are Livonian (La tvia), Yahgan (Chile), Hebrew (Israel), welch (Wales), Breton (France), Catalan (Spain), Andoa (Ecuador). The Portuguese variance of Pravda.Ru is actively engaged in projects in Africa to record not notwithstanding languages, but also traditions, gastronomy, dances, rituals and so on, to make sure that cultural expressions are not lost for good. timothy Bancroft-Hinchey. Portuguese version \n