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Pathways Unit 9

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What are two examples of languages that have few speakers? 235,000 speakers of Tuvan (Republic of Tuva), and 2,000 speakers of Aka (Arunachal Pradesh in North India)
How many languages are critically or severely endangered? More than 1,000 are critically or severely endangered.
What are some ways that languages die? The language of powerful groups have spread while the languages of smaller cultures have disappeared. Today, power may take less obvious forms: television, the Internet, and international business.
How do the Piraha tribe refer to quantities? What does this tell us? Piraha tribe refer to quantities such as few and many. This suggest that assigning numbers maybe an invention of culture rather than an innate part of human cognition.
What kind of information can the Seri language tell scientists? What other types of information can we learn from vanishing language? Scientists learned about an unknown yet highly nutritional food source similar to wheat, called eelgrass. They acquire new information about these animals' habitats and behavior. We can learn about plants that could someday lead to an invaluable machine.
What is the goal of the Enduring Voices project? What is one example of their work? The goal is to accurately document the languages of these places, and to record the cultural information they contain. One example of their work is to preserve disappearing language.
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