http://www.talkwelsh.net/what-are-the-difficulties-faced-when-trying-to-revive-a-regional-language.htm Discover More About The Welsh Language - Right Here! Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:25:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.talkwelsh.net/what-are-the-difficulties-faced-when-trying-to-revive-a-regional-language.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1474 gojuryu Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:08:56 +0000 http://www.talkwelsh.net/what-are-the-difficulties-faced-when-trying-to-revive-a-regional-language.htm#comment-1474 Thalat fot lernt speyk proper ifntha want's folk 'tfursta thi. Tha cornt lern nowt beht that. Thalat fot lernt speyk proper ifntha want’s folk ‘tfursta thi.
Tha cornt lern nowt beht that.

]]> http://www.talkwelsh.net/what-are-the-difficulties-faced-when-trying-to-revive-a-regional-language.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1472 George M Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:08:55 +0000 http://www.talkwelsh.net/what-are-the-difficulties-faced-when-trying-to-revive-a-regional-language.htm#comment-1472 If you want to revive a language you need to convince people to give up their current native language and converse predominately in the revived one. Since generally people are not very keen on doing that, it is almost impossible to revive a dead language. The only case that has ever really worked was when Hebrew was reviewed after WW2 and that only worked because almost all citizens of the new state had moved to Israel from their original countries and thus needed some language to interact with the many people that spoke languages different from their own. In Ireland on the other hand extensive efforts to revive and expand the use of Gaelic have largely been unsuccessful. Even though the overall knowledge of Gaelic has increased to to mandatory school education, the numbers of native Gaelic speakers keep declining as people from Gaelic areas move to English speaking areas and switch to English, while people that move to Gaeltacht areas do not take up Gaelic in the same way. If you want to revive a language you need to convince people to give up their current native language and converse predominately in the revived one.
Since generally people are not very keen on doing that, it is almost impossible to revive a dead language. The only case that has ever really worked was when Hebrew was reviewed after WW2 and that only worked because almost all citizens of the new state had moved to Israel from their original countries and thus needed some language to interact with the many people that spoke languages different from their own.
In Ireland on the other hand extensive efforts to revive and expand the use of Gaelic have largely been unsuccessful. Even though the overall knowledge of Gaelic has increased to to mandatory school education, the numbers of native Gaelic speakers keep declining as people from Gaelic areas move to English speaking areas and switch to English, while people that move to Gaeltacht areas do not take up Gaelic in the same way.

]]> http://www.talkwelsh.net/what-are-the-difficulties-faced-when-trying-to-revive-a-regional-language.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1473 Tour (anh yêu người nào yêu anh) Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:08:55 +0000 http://www.talkwelsh.net/what-are-the-difficulties-faced-when-trying-to-revive-a-regional-language.htm#comment-1473 me too i'm doing this and th hardest thing is findin matterials to learn them... good luck! me too i’m doing this and th hardest thing is findin matterials to learn them…
good luck!

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