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Tangential: does anyone know of any studies on: * the status of “unofficial” languages such as Cantonese, Shanghainese, Hakka, Hokkien, Minnan, or others, insi
by hker 6y ago
Tangential: does anyone know of any studies on:
* the status of “unofficial” languages such as Cantonese, Shanghainese, Hakka, Hokkien, Minnan, or others, inside China, Taiwan, or overseas;
* their usage trends over (say) the last decade.
Such awareness would be crucial to saving extinct languages and ensuring language and cultural diversity.
- Hitton 6y agoI don't think that foreign institution can have meaningful effect in saving language. They can record its usage, vocabulary and grammar for the sake of future generations of linguists, philologists and maybe archaeologists, but can't stop it from extinction.