Essays on Indigenous Language

Indigenous Language

Introduction Language is a very essential communication tool across the globe. It is defined to be the capability to use and attain different systems of complex communication that people use. There are many different language systems that are used all throughout the numerous races in the world. Linguistics is the scientific study mainly focused on language. Way back in the 20th century, there had been so many arguments about the origin or language. One is that language arose from the logical and rational thought while the other argument would be it arose from emotions; Immanuel Kant is one of ...

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There are many forces that cause the reduction of linguistic diversity in the world. In most countries, there are different people from different cultural backgrounds but as time goes by, we find that most of these communities seem to have forgotten their languages and have integrated with the other communities and formed different common language. Roughly, five to six thousand languages are spoken in the world today. However, a hundred years from now, those numbers will certainly fall to a thousand or even less. Communities that were once self-sufficient are now finding themselves under intense pressure to integrate with their more ...

“Aboriginal” has since time immemorial been used to describe the indigenous inhabitants of places that were discovered and colonized by European nations. However, the word has of late found widespread use of the term aboriginal in the description of the Australian populace. Before the spread of western civilization most aboriginal languages were entirely spoken languages which did not have any writing system. Before the spread of western civilization, recording of information on written material was not common. This explains why most written aboriginal languages lack voice and identity. However non –aboriginal writers have made large strides in the transcription ...

The article that will be the focus of this essay is “Using Video Games and Kickstarter to Learn the Cherokee Language”. The news clip is about a new development by Don Thornton, a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, which uses video games to teach a language. Thornton introduced the “Talking Games”, the first commercial 3-D video game that aims to teach a language. The purpose of Thornton in developing this new medium of instruction is to help preserve the indigenous language of the Cherokee Indians, his ancestors. He realizes that learning a language can be very boring especially if traditional methods are ...

More than often, language has been considered as the most obvious form of human communication. This is because, the use of either oral, written or non-verbal - language in each and every society remain as the most refined and fundamental form of communication among individuals. In most cases, the use of language is wide as it fulfills a wide range of functions that are of high critical importance to both individual and social life (Tollefson 3). As a result, in all human ventures there exists a correlation between language as a tool used to negotiate, to articulate and create meaning of individual perception ...