Indigenous Languages Explained (and the Real Meaning of No Woman, No Cry)

The Fluent Show

This episode effortlessly covers the full language world, from Sean Paul to the UN Declaration of Human Rights.

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It's the United Nations Year of Indigenous Languages

Up to 95% of the world’s languages might be extinct or endangered by the end of the century. And most of them are indigenous, meaning that they spoken by the indigenous people of a region.

In this show, you'll discover

1. What’s an indigenous language?
2. Why does it matter so much that we preserve these languages?

Hint: Because it's a HUMAN RIGHT

1. Should any country at all have an official language?
2. And where do you start if you want to learn an indigenous language?

And we think you love a quiz as much as we do, so don't miss out the indigenous language quiz in this episode.

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Links:

• Episode 37: The Secret Languages of Great Britain (with an expert from Omniglot) by Fluent Language
• Language is Everything: Talking Language Activism with Wikitongues
• UN information about indigenous languages
• Language Stories
• LangFest17 - Lindsay Willams - Why + how you should learn a language you've never heard of - YouTube
• Emma Stevens - Blackbird by The Beatles sung in Mi'kmaq - YouTube
• Wikitongues.org
• Linguistic rights - Wikipedia
• 7000 Languages
• Sean Paul: 'Language barrier' a problem for dancehall artists - BBC News
• Jamaica's patois Bible: The word of God in creole - BBC News — A few Jamaican patois rules Plural nouns are made with the word "dem" ("they" or "them" in English) - so the plural of "uoli prafit" ("holy prophet") is "uoli prafit dem", and the plural of "enimi" ("enemy") is "enimi dem" The past tense is marked by the word "did" - so "he lived" is, in patois, "im did liv" The future tense can be marked with " a go" or "wi" ("will") - "Im a go siev" is "He will save", and "Yu wi nuo" is "You will know"
• The World's Most Controversial K-Pop Group - YouTube
• Omniglot - the online encyclopedia of writing systems and languages
• Why Indigenous Languages Should Be Taught Alongside French and English - Chatelaine
• Why cultural death is a shared loss | Inky Gibbens | TEDxCambridgeUniversity - YouTube
• What Gets Easier When You Study More Languages? by Fluent Language
• Talk To Me In Korean
• The Add1 Challenge
• The Alphabets : Atlas of Endangered Alphabets
• Ethnologue: Languages of the World