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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES & EDUCATION Why the Fuss? The Response of Communities and Scholars to Endangered Languages in the Caribbean Without language, culture and civilization would be impossible (Linguistic Creed) 1. The world has 7,000 languages: • 3,000 are facing extinction. • 577 are critically endangered. • Humanity loses 25 languages annually 2. The Caribbean has 70 languages: • Indigenous • European • African • Creole • Immigrant/diasporic • Sign • Ritual 3. Lost languages • Lost histories • Lost intangible cultural heritage • Lost socio-cultural and scientiﬁc knowledge • Lost world views • Lost linguistic structures • Lost identities 4. Role of the University and Communities: • Emphasising community needs and wants • Teaching and literacy • Training • Policy and Planning • Supporting the Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights • Interdisciplinary/collaborative links • Archiving TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO ENDANGERED LANGUAGES PROJECT (TTEL) PROJECT Contact Information: Jo-Anne Ferreira and Ben Braithwaite, RDI Trinidad and Tobago Endangered Languages (TTEL) Project - [email protected] and [email protected] Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities and Education e University of the West Indies, St Augustine

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Page 1: TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO ENDANGERED LANGUAGES PROJECT … · 3. Lost languages • Lost histories • Lost intangible cultural heritage • Lost socio-cultural and scientific knowledge

FACULTY OF HUMANITIES& EDUCATION

Why the Fuss? The Response of Communities and Scholars to Endangered

Languages in the Caribbean

Without language, culture and civilization would be impossible (Linguistic Creed)

1. The world has 7,000 languages:• 3,000 are facing extinction.• 577 are critically endangered.• Humanity loses 25 languages annually

2. The Caribbean has 70 languages:

• Indigenous• European• African• Creole• Immigrant/diasporic• Sign• Ritual

3. Lost languages

• Lost histories• Lost intangible cultural heritage• Lost socio-cultural and scientific knowledge• Lost world views• Lost linguistic structures• Lost identities

4. Role of the University and Communities:• Emphasising community needs and wants• Teaching and literacy• Training• Policy and Planning• Supporting the Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights• Interdisciplinary/collaborative links• Archiving

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO ENDANGERED LANGUAGES PROJECT (TTEL) PROJECT

Contact Information:Jo-Anne Ferreira and Ben Braithwaite, RDI Trinidad and Tobago Endangered Languages (TTEL) Project - [email protected] and [email protected]

Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities and EducationThe University of the West Indies, St Augustine

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