Hi, I'm Bo and this is the story of my life - and death.

6. ^

10. Imma gonna
need more candles

11. For 2600
generations

16. of the world’s
languages..

17. ..are spoken by six
percent of the
world’s population

18. A language
dies every
two weeks

19. languages
have only
speaker left

20. By the year 2100, 90%
of the world's languages
will be extinct.
Some linguists claim that

22. Competition? Globalization?
Shifting Allegiance?
Linguistic Warfare?
Disease? Genocide?
Epidemic? Glottopolitics?

23. Indifference.

24. Indifference**is injurious to our health

25. Imagine being
the only speaker
of your language..

26. Extinction of a language
does have its economic
and practical
advantages..

27. But the death of each
language is another step on a
treadmill towards humankind’s
cultural
oblivion ..
http://thelousylinguist.blogspot.com/2010/03/is-language-death-all-that-bad.html
- The Lousy Linguist

28. It is a loss like none other

29. ‘When I think of my tongue
being no longer alive in the
mouths of men, a chill goes over
me that is deeper than my own
death, since it is the gathered
death of all my kind.’
- David Malouf in The Only Speaker of His Tongue

30. A language is not just a way to
communicate..
Tonight?
Nope.

31. A language is a way of being..

32. each language is ’a whole
alternative universe, since the
world as we know it is in the last
resort the words through which
we imagine and name it.
- David Malouf

33. Stop cruelty to Languages!

34. Preserve Us.
Nurture Us.
Pass Us on.

35. Goodbye then!

36. Do vote for us!
Presentation Trivia
In case you couldn’t identify,
the lady in the sizzling outfit is
Bo Derek. The musician is Bo
Diddely. Now go Google it.
Slide 6 and 7 have some Braille
characters at the top and
some Sign language symbols at
the bottom.

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