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The Evolution and Significance of Language in Cultural Transmission

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Language serves as a vital component of culture, facilitating communication and cultural expression across generations. This chapter delves into the definitions of languages, emphasizing their dynamic nature and the role they play as cultural vehicles. With over 6,800 languages worldwide, many are facing extinction, highlighting the need for preservation efforts. We explore language families, historical connections, and patterns of language spread, including migration, conquest, and colonization, revealing how cultural dynamics shape linguistic diversity.

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  1. Chapter Five Language and Religion: Mosaics of Culture they are mentifacts - component of the ideological subsystem of culture , serving as expressions of culture and as vehicles of its transmittal to succeeding generations.

  2. Definition of Languages • Language • definition : an organized system of spoken words by which people communicate with each other with mutual comprehension. Like Chinese -Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, Hakka, and others with different pronunciation but same written works.(Figure 5.3 – Chinese characters) • Communication of sound (vocalization) is the crucial part of this definition • Non-human languages- elephants, dolphins, chimpanzees - basic and static unlikely evolving into complex languages. • Languages are not static but change continuously • Modern English - computer expands the vocabulary of commonly used words.

  3. Extinction Fear for languages TOP 10 LANGUAGES(percent of world speakers in parentheses)1. Mandarin/Chinese (16%) 2. English (8%) 3. Spanish (5%) 4. Arabic (4%) 5. (tie) Hindi, Portuguese, Bengali, Russian (3% each) 9. (tie) Japanese, French (2% each)Source: U.N. Environment Program • 6,800 world languages, nearly 1,700 languages are either endangered, critically endangered or vulnerable (report from Nature) • 27% of world languages are endangered. • Countries with the most endangered and extinct languages also have more endangered and extinct birds • here are 357 languages with fewer than 50 speakers each. Reference:http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/05/22/extinct.language/index.html

  4. Endangered Languages http://www.intersolinc.com/newsletters/newsletter_21.htm

  5. Trace proto languages • Ancestral language • The predecessor of Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit • Link Romance language and other languages together To prove its existence: 1) reconstruction 2) Locate the hearths 3) Diffusion routes must be traced 4) knowledge of the ways of life • Genetic classification: classification of languages by origin and historical relationship

  6. Language Family • proto-Indo-European languages (Fig 5.3) - originally hunters/fishers later became pastoralists and learnt to grow crops (in eastern Europe) 5000 bp. • Table 5.1

  7. World Pattern of Languages • Language Spread - by migration, conquests, colonization. (fig 5.5) • Fig 5.6 - Amerindian language families • three waves of migration: Amerind, Na-Dene, and Eskimo-Aleut. • Innumerable indigenous languages - extinguished.

  8. Patterns • Colonization and conquest - 1000 to 2000 Amerindian languages disappeared • 16th century - Slavic expansion caused the lost of Paleo-Asiatic languages • Australian languages from English speakers • Austro-Asiatic speakers reduced by conquest/absorption (Sino-Tibetan) • Arabic/Bantu expansion

  9. Spread • Latin replaced Celtic (abandonment of former languages) • Adoption (expansion diffusion, acculturation) - major cause of language spread. Indo-European languages was dispersed to other areas. • Arabic to N Africa,W Asia through conquest/religious conversion and superiority of culture • Relocation Diffusion - massive migration • Hierarchical Diffusion - adoption of new languages from administrator-schooling-daily contact-business.. proficiency of new languages symbolizing the culture and education, social status (in Uganda, English instead of Swahili being used to display the prestige..) • Cultural Barriers - (Greek/Turkish.. Cyprus, Breton/Caelic..) • Physical barriers - Pamirs/Hindu Kush mountains..obstacle for Indo-European), Euskara (in Basques)