Does this scare you?
Which direction did you read it in?
Left to right or right to left?
Are you intimidated by the unknown script?
Or do you love it?
Do you love that there are
such vastly different languages in the world?
I love it!
All of those words mean "Welcome!".
I have always been fascinated by different languages.
They're so cool.
I'm lucky.
A long time ago,
I learned to read Thai...
ภาษาไทย
(Told you it was cool!)
I've been curious about languages ever since.
So, I can't let today slip by without blogging about it:
The Day provides us with an opportunity to deepen our understanding of the values of cultural diversity and to learn to "live together" better.
I grabbed these from an assortment of webpages:
A world without different languages would be pretty dull. Learning a new language is a great way to fight off dementia... it keeps your brain younger and more active.
Go on then...
Choose a language and get started...
Go to youtube and listen to songs in different languages. Keep the world a colourful place, linguistically speaking!
We can't afford to let any more languages die.
We've lost so many already.
It is estimated that more than a half of over 6,000 world languages spoken today will be replaced by dominant languages. This means that more than 3,000 languages will no longer be spoken by the end of the 21st century. The Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2009) shows that languages in danger of becoming extinct are found in almost every part of the world. National Geographic's Enduring Voice Project on endangered languages of the world identifies five Language Hotspots, areas where many languages are facing near extinction. These Hotspots occur in Australia, Central and Eastern Siberia and North and South America.
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