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World Economic Forum: Could climate change cause languages to die? “An increase in climate-change related natural disasters may affect linguistic diversity.”
Babbel Mag: “Climate change is also endangering the survival of many of the world’s most at-risk linguistic populations. As these communities get displaced due to rising sea levels and climatic changes that disrupt their agricultural and fishing industries, it becomes inevitably more difficult for small languages to remain viable as its speakers scatter around the globe and are forced to assimilate to local cultures.”
By: Marc Morano – Climate DepotApril 21, 2022 6:27 PM with 0 comments
https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/climate-change-language-death
Is Climate Change Accelerating Language Loss?Biological diversity and linguistic diversity are linked in ways that might surprise you.
Excerpt: The Impact Of Climate Change On Language Death
There are approximately 7,000 languages currently spoken in the world today, but as many as half of them are expected to go extinct by the end of this century. Currently, half of the world’s languages have fewer than 10,000 speakers each. When you crunch all the numbers, only about 0.1 percent of the world’s population is currently what’s keeping half of the world’s languages alive.
Of course, it’s impossible to attribute this to any one single cause. Genocide, policy, persecution and economic pressures all play a role in our increasingly globalized world. If speaking your mother tongue doesn’t make financial sense for the community because every viable job opportunity requires you to speak the more populous national language, it’s going to be that much harder to secure institutional support at school and in the media to ensure regional languages are passed down to younger generations.
However, climate change is also endangering the survival of many of the world’s most at-risk linguistic populations. As these communities get displaced due to rising sea levels and climatic changes that disrupt their agricultural and fishing industries, it becomes inevitably more difficult for small languages to remain viable as its speakers scatter around the globe and are forced to assimilate to local cultures.
And even if certain communities manage to stay in place, there’s still a sense of “you can’t go home again” when your local environment is becoming unrecognizable to you.
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It’s not hard to see how climate change is directly accelerating the process of language death around the world. But is it possible that it works both ways? Does the extinction of languages also, in turn, speed up environmental decay?
This is a claim that might be a bit more difficult to prove, but it’s worth considering. Many indigenous languages are imbued with an intimate (and often unwritten) knowledge of the natural ecosystem they’re a part of — the plants, animals, and all the ways humans have learned to coexist within that matrix over many years.
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https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/12/could-climate-change-cause-languages-to-die/
World Economic Forum: Could climate change cause languages to die?
Excerpt: An increase in climate-change related natural disasters may affect linguistic diversity. A good example is Vanuatu, an island state in the Pacific, with quite a dramatic recent rise in sea levels. … Researchers had just discovered the Dusner language, which had only a handful of remaining speakers, when flooding in 2010 devastated the Papua region of Indonesia, where the Dusner village is located. Luckily, some of the speakers had survived, and the language could be documented.
https://theconversation.com/the-impact-of-climate-change-on-language-loss-105475
The impact of climate change on language lossPublished: November 26, 2018
Excerpt: It is difficult to predict the future for any particular language. While some minority languages will thrive for generations to come, many of the world’s languages are moving towards extinction within a generation.
One stressor that may be the tipping point for some communities is climate change. Many small linguistic communities are located on islands and coastlines vulnerable to hurricanes and a rise in sea levels. Other communities are settled on lands where increases in temperature and fluctuations in precipitation can threaten traditional farming and fishing practices.
These changes will force communities to relocate, creating climate change refugees. The resultant dispersal of people will lead to the splintering of linguistic communities and increased contact with other languages. These changes will place additional pressures on languages that are already struggling to survive.
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I’m more concerned the Babel fish may go extinct
the more languages there are, the more the opportunity for international misunderstanding. Every time I hear that a language has become extinct, I give a little cheer. Ideally, one day the whole world will be talking the same language.
Yup, trouble is it’s likely to be Chinese.
the story of david good is an interesting case study . his mother is a yanomami amazon woman who only tried living inNJ for a few months before she had to return to the jungle . and his father is an anthropologist from new jersey . David was raised a typical NJ kid and did not see or communicate with his mother til he was college age . he now spends considerable time with his yanomami family . very interesting to see how such a primitive tribe is reacting to cell phones and the internet . lots on you tube about it
Official “Climate Science ” is more or less the reason to be at loss for words.
so people are moving from using a useless language (in the modern world) to a useful one … seems like progress to me … of course, it has nothing to do with “climate change” but everything to do with USELESS language …
So the spread of US films and media has no impact and the indoctrination that it brings
Won’t it be wonderful when evolution ceases, everything on earth remains static and nothing changes?
Then life will be much better, just like the good old days. Never forget, all the worlds problems are your fault for wanting a better life.
…and then you have all those sci–fi films with space alien languages that have to be translated into English for the audiences watching….
Looks like other fields of science are getting jealous of all that environmental activist money floating around in the climate scientology department, and working hard to work climate into their “naratives”
Is there nothing that CO2 driven Climate Change cannot destroy?
I just finished reading a “science article” that Climate Change is causing a higher divorce rate among the Albatross. Not kidding. I was astonished to discover that birds had marriage contracts at all.
Therefore, it is no wonder that Climate Change can cause loss of language skills, or perhaps people to be born mute. I think this was predicted by H.G. Wells and “The Time Machine”.
Written by Steph Koyfman… writer, lindy hopper, and astrologer.
Very scientific!
This is really just an excuse for academics who have wasted their lives studying dying languages to get Green New Deal and “climate mitigation” funding.
I don’t need to waste time reading it to know it is crap. Languages have died and will die. They are impermanent just like all life and species and climate. They all change, things disappear and new things arise. It isn’t a disaster and the idea that climate is the main driver of cultures and languages is an unscientific superstitious and convenient belief used to promote the same tired old end-of-times-due-to-human success trope.
Climate Change! Is there anything it can’t do?
Climate change alarmists have corrupted languages in general. Most normal humans seem to be aware that the term “climate change” itself has been corrupted, judging by the MyWorld2015 survey of about 940 million people, which placed the issue of climate last out of 16 issues.
I used to have a job description that included requirements such as promoting sustainability, energy efficiency, resilience, and promotion of climate-responsive design in the context of both urban and natural environments. All of the above terms are now unusable.
What a silly idea. Not only is there no more climate change now than normal, but there’s no evidence it has any effect on diversity of languages.
Is there ANYTHING the Magic Molecule CO2 can’t do?
Nope. Except anything good, I guess…
So I guess Latin became a dead language because of climate change; i.e. the Little Ice Age, or was it because of a lack of use. The latter was the real reason, and it still applies. Languages die because better ones or more popular ones supplant them, or they are too inflexible to add new words to the vocabulary.
Horrors, now I’m really worried!
Not.
Neither I, nor my wife, nor our kids and grandkids speak the language of our ancestors. OH MY GOD, WHAT A NIGHTMARE EXISTENCE!!!
Rising sea levels cut off the land, isolate it, it will cause more languages to evolve.
See how easy it is to BS with logic?
So Babel was a good thing for humanity?
The first thing that hit me was the claim of sea level change causing the loss of language by dispersion due to flooding. Now I realize there are probably some islands or atolls that have a unique native language but in today’s world they would be few and far between.
Most people on the coasts of bodies of water will have already been discovered sometime in the past. They will have been exposed to different languages and if commerce erupted I will guarantee that they learned new languages.
Probably more important is population density in the world. You can’t go from a few million people to 8 – 9 billion people without massive expansion of cultural interaction. When this happens, the larger culture will subsum the smaller one. It is a fact. The dispersion of people into the larger culture is not because of climate change, it just happens because of opportunities.