🌿 As nature fades, so do the words we use to describe it. Languages worldwide are losing biodiversity-related terms, threatening cultural identity and ecological awareness. Saving nature means saving language too. 📚🌎
🔗 https://grist.org/language/nature-word-language-disappear-culture/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Autoposting
#LanguageLoss #NatureWords #CulturalHeritage

I remember a patient, a lovely gentleman who used to fill my clinic room with laughter and stories. Then, one day, his daughter brought him in. He looked… lost. #aphasia #braininjury #communicationdisorder #languageloss #speechtherapy #stroke

https://priya.health/aphasia/

Our #ThatWordChat episode with Lorna Gibb will premiere on YouTube today at 4:30 PM ET!

Tune in: bit.ly/ThatWordVideo

#ThatWordChat #Linguistics #Books #LanguageLoss

#LanguageLoss as experienced by a person who never properly acquired her #HeritageLanguage, plus expert comments, busting the myths about #multilingualism, and making an important point: #MinorityLanguages are often not treated as languages but as ethnic attributes. When laypeople (also decision-makers) speak about "languages", "[I]t's often not about the languages at all – but about social attitudes, especially to immigration."
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230608-what-happens-when-you-cant-speak-your-parents-native-language

Unlike biodiversity loss, I have to admit I hadn't really thought about the impact of the climate crisis on language loss before.

Every 40 days a language dies. This “catastrophic” loss is being amplified by the climate crisis, according to linguists. If nothing is done, conservative estimates suggest that half of all the 7,000 languages currently spoken will be extinct by the end of the century.

#ClimateCrisis #LanguageLoss

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/16/linguists-language-culture-loss-end-of-century-sea-levels-rise