Language Preservation
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Contributions of Muslims towards India, without which Indian culture today is unimaginable. A thread :🧵 https://t.co/0QoDU7AJLX
7 Villages in Bharat where people still used Sanskrit language for their day to day communication 1. Mattur Village, Karnataka https://t.co/eTa0OxINkb
My wife is a teacher and a week ago they went through brainstorming of new education policy. Key focus in the new education policy is to revive what we've lost and to protect wha...
Bharat’s education system not fixed after Independence, but instead deliberately worsened. Why? How? Let’s see… When Israel became independent in the year 1948, the question woul...
It shocks me to see parents encouraging their children to speak only in english and not in their mother tongue(MT). They take it as a matter of pride to see their kids speaking eng...
Since the US banned our Hawaiian language, it nearly went extinct. Less than 100 kids spoke it in the 80's. Kids are STILL punished for speaking Hawaiian today. The fact we've 30,0...
Language is not just a means of communication; it is also a carrier of cultural heritage and values. By preserving the Yoruba language, we are also preserving the Yoruba culture,...
US pretending to care about us Hawaiians while systemically eradicating our language. Great job, fake US 'State' of Hawaii, you genocide mongers. https://t.co/OXBXJWIrQ5
Since the US banned our Hawaiian language, it nearly went extinct. Less than 100 kids spoke it in the 80's. Kids are STILL punished for speaking Hawaiian today. The fact we've 30,0...
“One of the essential points we must address - as President Putin has always said - is the fear that NATO comes right up to its doors, and the deployment of weapons that could thre...
Teachers punish Hawaiian children for speaking Hawaiian in Hawaii, and nothing happens. In 2022. Good for the Turkish kid, though. https://t.co/2h9Noziz6G
The oldest surviving printed Cornish is in a book by Andrew Borde, published in 1540. "In Cornwall is two speches: the one is naughty Englysshe and the other is Cornysshe speche. T...
On October 7, 1992, an elderly man named Tevfik Esenç died in Turkey, and with him - on that day - died the Ubykh language. Once spoken by 50 000 people in the northwest Caucusus...
The notion of Sanskrit being a dead language is actually the pet-hypothesis of Sheldon Pollock. In his article 'Death of Sanskrit' published in 2001, he makes it clear that one of...
