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Pathways 3 Unit9

Pathways 3 Unit9 Q&A

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What are two examples of languages that have few speaker? Tuvan, Aka, Seri, Djawi.
How many languages are critically or sever endangered? more than 1,000
What are some ways that languages die? they are taken over by more dominant languages political pressures, commercial pressures.
How do the Piraha tribe refer to quantities? What does this tell us? Few, Many. Quantities is cultural. Not innate.
What kind of information can the Seri language tell scientists? What other types of information can we learn from vanishing languages? we can learn about medicinal plants and about the history and survival skills of the world's cultures habitats and behaviors of animals, nutrition food source similar to wheat.
What is the goal of the Enduring Voices Project? what is one example of their work to preserve disappearing languages. they document and record language the cultural information the languages contain.
How does political pressure effect the survival of smaller languages? when governments pass laws that promote dominant languages, or ban the use of smaller languages in education and the media.
why do children from non-dominant language groups tend to lose their native language as they grow up, attend school, and enter the workforce? people disapprove of these languages because they believe they are barrier to success. children have a strong desire to conform.
why may monolingual business employees find themselves at a disadvantage? they will be less successful because they will be unable to communicate and conduct business with countries such as China, for example.
where did the world's population increase the most in the second half of the twentieth century? developing counties
what are three of the most rapidly growing language groups? Begali, Tamil, Malay
Why is the dominance of one language useful in science? It allows for international collaboration and research.
How much scientific literature is already published in English? More than 90%
What is an example of a dominant language that died? When and where was it dominant? Latin, Until end of 1600's, in Europe.
Why were Arabic,Mandarin,English,French,Russian, and Spanish chosen as the official languages of the United Nations? Give two reasons. more than half countries. 40% population.
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