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| administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7380 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes  12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 6 22 August 2005 at 6:15am | IP Logged |
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How many languages have been resurrected? By this I mean languages that were not really spoken in the course of everyday life by any sizeable population, and by the course of political event enjoyed a new life, becoming again spoken every day.
I think this applies to Modern Hebrew but I am not sure if there are other examples that would more or less qualify by the above definition. For those languages, how were new words created? I mean by this when the language was resurrected, how were all the stock of words describing things invented in the last few centuries created, such as cars, computers, light bulbs, subway, etc... ? Sorry for asking but it is highly intriguing to me. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Marin Triglot Groupie Croatia Joined 7063 days ago 50 posts - 51 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Italian Studies: German, Russian, Persian | Message 2 of 6 22 August 2005 at 8:58am | IP Logged |
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My highschool Latin teacher is president of Latin society Croatia and they spend a lot of their time in 'updating' the language, so eg. Latin word for internet is 'internetarum' which is very much in the spirit of Latin. Also, after the breakup of Yugoslavia there was an attempt to diversificate Serbian and Croatian as much as possible, so not only that Serbian origin words were removed from Croatian, but also some archaic medieval words were brought up back to use, some unsucessfully, but some not. Also many new words were invented by direct translating, like in German Fernseher for TV we tried to implement 'dalekovidnica', but luckily that didn't work.
About resurrecting some dead languages.... I really can't think of any. Edited by Marin on 22 August 2005 at 8:58am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| victor Tetraglot Moderator United States Joined 7322 days ago 1098 posts - 1056 votes 6 sounds Speaks: Cantonese*, English, FrenchC1, Mandarin Studies: Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 6 22 August 2005 at 2:58pm | IP Logged |
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The only ones that I can come up with are Gaelic and Welsh, which were very close to being dead, but brought back alive by the governments. Irish Gaelic is now an official language of the European Union. Then again, Rumantsch has Google.
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| administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7380 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes 12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 6 22 August 2005 at 3:15pm | IP Logged |
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Victor, you are quite right, Ardaschir told us about Swiss German and Rumantsch being brought back from the dying for political reason (asserting independence from neighbors with imperialist ideals). Silly me, I should have tought of these ones!
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| Giordano Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 7178 days ago 213 posts - 218 votes 3 sounds Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Cantonese, Greek | Message 5 of 6 22 August 2005 at 6:14pm | IP Logged |
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Manx (Isle of Man) is hardly spoken (+/- 300 speakers) but it is undergoing some form of a renaissance (native speakers for the first time in many, many years), and Cornish (Cornwall) was dead for about 200 years before being resurrected. Edited by Giordano on 22 August 2005 at 6:14pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jmlgws Senior Member Canada Joined 7106 days ago 102 posts - 104 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Mandarin | Message 6 of 6 27 August 2005 at 8:00am | IP Logged |
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In a recent article in the New York Times Magazine there is some discussion about resurrecting native Indian languages. In fact, in one instance (Stephanie Fielding, for Mohegan), the article states that she admires how Hebrew was resurrected (and presumably is trying to reproduce this language resurrection for Mohegan).
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