105 Week 8

[malory rodriguez]

This article was a very interesting one to me. It spoke of how this tribe's language went from being declared dead by the United States to a federally recognized status due to a dictionary that was created. I have a lot of doubts from time to time learning Swedish. It isn't like Spanish where it makes sense to learn to because there are a lot of countries who speak it and it is becoming prevalent in the business world as well. There are only a select group of people (the swedes) and then some various other Scandinavians who can actually speak the language. So logically it may not be the smartest move for me to learn Swedish, but I like it. I like it a lot. I think thats what the article was talking about a bit. That although learning those tribal languages many not be the most efficient practice, there are people with passion who want to learn. And through making a dictionary and making it accessible to people, it went from 5 speakers left of the language to 4900 enrolled members. I think globalization is the best and the worst thing for languages. The best because it allows a teenaged girl who goes to school in Richmond to learn Swedish and be able to use it in a variety of contexts. But it is also the worst because it would logically make more sense for that girl to take a spanish or Chinese to be able to adopt quicker, to a globalizing world.