Re: Language revival (was Re: Which auxlangs? (was Re: I won't [to] start a flame war))
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 14, 1999, 0:54 |
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On Sat, 13 Nov 1999 15:40:49 -0000 alypius <krazyal@...> writes:
> Irish state has not used every resource at its disposal. How does
> one
> manage to revive a dead language as a living spoken language on even
> a small
> scale, such as Cornish has done? How did the first speakers learn
> to speak
> it when they had no one to speak to in Cornish? Does anyone know
> how this
> is done? I would like to see more dead or nearly dead languages
> revived,
> but the obstacles appear daunting. Old English would be a good
Well, Eli`ezer Ben-yehuda spoke to his children *only* in Hebrew. He
would send them to their rooms when a non-Hebrew speaker came to the
house, so that they wouldn't be exposed to any other language.
-Stephen (Steg)
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