Open AccessMożliwości rewitalizacji zagrożonych języków: między odpowiedzialnością państwa a działaniami mniejszości językowych
Author(s) -
Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
kultura i społeczeństwo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2300-195X
pISSN - 0023-5172
DOI - 10.35757/kis.2008.52.2.10
Subject(s) - welsh , action (physics) , forgetting , political science , state (computer science) , sociology , linguistics , computer science , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , algorithm
The article considers the main ways, aims and possibilities of revitalising minority languages. The discussion is based on an analysis of a few minority languages (Welsh, Wendi’s and Breton) and the action being taken in order to keep them alive. The author asks the question as to the degree to which minority cultures and their rights to minority languages are respected by the state and the signicance of this to the revitalisation of seriously endangered languages. Her answer is that the most effective method of protecting endangered languages is to support action conducted by representatives of the minority cultures, which will improve the standing of that language and will encourage its use in public life and – at least partly – on ofcial occasions (not forgetting about the introduction of those languages into the education system).