Pre - Movie Activity
1. What does the title tell you that this movie is going to be about?
The title of this movie maybe is related to some studies of language in different contries by expert in this area of knowledge.
2. Based on what we have discussed in the class, what is the meaning or meanings of the word LINGUIST?
Linguist: is a linguistics expert, somebadody who speaks several language, language student.
3. How can a language become dead?
3. How can a language become dead?
A
language become dead when most of the people that use this language
don´t teach it to younger people, also when the same people that has the
same culture doesn´t have the interest to learn more about the
language, traditions, story telling and more related to the language.
Other reason can be the influence and use of a second language for in
case of indigenous in some case they can speak more Spanish than their
own language maybe these are some reason that participate in the death
of a language.
4. What at would happen if a language doesn´t exist anymore?
If
a language doesn´t exist anymore a group of people lost part of their
culture, they lost part of their own identity, they also can lost some
tradition that is important part of a society.
DURING THE MOVIE
1.What is the movie going to be about?
The
movie is related to a pair of professional in linguistics that make
studies of different possible dead languages in some part of the world.
They are searching with the help of people that know and use these
language in their clan or tribe, but they had some little troubles
because peoplo who knows these language are very older, or there are a
few of them and some case are dead. Finallly they can found some people
that helped them to know some words for example numbers and part of the
body and they can made their work.
- Sora is spoken in India. People who know this language are very few because the extintion of their tribe cause the violence and the natural death.10 people talk in Sora.
- Kalawaya is spoken in Bolivia. This language is desappearing because the influence of other language including Spanish and foreing languagE, also because there a few people that use it.2 or 4 people use Kalawaya.
- Chumehuevi, it is spoken in Arizona USA. This is a language from India it is desappearing because they have to talk in their second language that is English it is spoken by a family of 5 members.
- Chulym, it is spoken in Russia. This language is desappearing because people who talk it are very older and for some of them is very difficult to communicate the language and also they are a few in this country.Chulym is spoken by 9 people.
AFTER THE MOVIE
The movie show about
culture, language, and traditions these are part of the essential identity of a
society, this is their own knowledge and knowledge is the goal of Epistemology.
In this case the movie is focus on how people can communicate knowledge by the
time through the language, also show many and different language that tribe use
in past but are disappearing because
the influence of new language, natural death, because young people don´t have
interest to learn about language. All of these things are related to Epistemology
all of this has relation with knowledge and how pass to others.
2. Please relate each of the topics of Linguistics
discussed in class to a part of the movie.
A critical stage in language death is reached when children stop learning the language. Discuss the kinds of conditions that would make children want or not want to learn a language spoken by their parents or grandparents.
One of the causes of dead languages is the
indifference to learn the mother language
in case for example of tribes, children don´t use their own language to
communicate between them, they have influences from second language for example
here in Colombia Spanish so they lost part of the culture of these town or
tribes. This problem happen in Palenque-Bolivar where young people are losing
their language and also traditions and culture, but they notice this problem
and they prepared and applied solutions for example that young people and
children study the language, celebrate some festival, they use again storytelling
and in these way they are recovering their language
.