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Post by j7oyun55rruk on Dec 26, 2023 5:59:49 GMT -5
The climate crisis is killing languages Representatives of national minorities were persecuted for a long time, because of which, by the 1920s, half of all the languages ?of the indigenous peoples of Australia, the USA, South Africa and Argentina had disappeared . Experts believe that the climate crisis is another danger to these languages ??and the knowledge and traditions associated with them. Anastasia Riehl, a linguist at Queens University in Kingston, Canada, points out : “Many languages ??are already vulnerable and endangered. The main factors influencing this are globalization and migration. Moreover, it seems C Level Contact List especially cruel that most of the world's languages ??are in parts of the world that [due to the cataclysms associated with the climate crisis] are becoming increasingly inhospitable to people.” " languages" Vanuatu is an island nation in the South Pacific. It occupies 12.2 thousand km 2 , for comparison - this is about 27% of the area of ??the Moscow region. At the same time, 138 languages ??\u200b\ u200bare spoken in Vanuatu (for every 88 km 2 there is one. This is the highest "language density" on the planet. At the same time, Vanuatu is one of the countries that could be affected by floods associated with rising sea levels. Anastasia Riehl adds: “Many small linguistic communities are located on islands and coasts that suffer from hurricanes. Others live in lands where rising temperatures threaten traditional farming and fishing practices, prompting migration. Thus, climate change is further destroying communities.
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