{"id":16787,"date":"2018-01-17T08:30:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T16:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=16787"},"modified":"2018-01-16T20:38:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T04:38:32","slug":"reviving-dormant-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2018\/01\/17\/reviving-dormant-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"On reviving dormant languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely, long, fascinating, thought-provoking article about languages going dormant\/extinct, and languages being revived, and colonialism, and more, from a Marxist or at least Leftist perspective: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/salvage.zone\/in-print\/salvaging-the-dormant-on-language\/\">Salvaging the Dormant: On Language<\/a>,\u201d by Sarah Grey.<\/p>\n<p>Includes discussion of updating languages for modern use; of appropriate terminology around the death or dormancy of languages; of forcing Native American kids into English-only schools; of attempts to revive various Native American languages; of Modern Hebrew; of Tamil; of Quechua; of the ethical responsibilities of linguists; and of the standardization that often comes with attempts to preserve a language. Among other things.<\/p>\n<p>(Via KTO.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely, long, fascinating, thought-provoking article about languages going dormant\/extinct, and languages being revived, and colonialism, and more, from a Marxist or at least Leftist perspective: \u201cSalvaging the Dormant: On Language,\u201d by Sarah Grey. Includes discussion of updating languages for modern use; of appropriate terminology around the death or dormancy of languages; of forcing Native American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languages"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16788,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16787\/revisions\/16788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}