naturallybent

makeanewbeginning:

“Out of 16 Coast Salish languages — only 5-6 have are still “alive” and have fluent speakers. The rest are extinct and/or fairly dead. And the remaining 5-6 languages have all have less then 20 fluent speakers… with most having less then 6 fluent speakers.

The consequences of colonialism are really apparent when we look at the state of Indigenous languages.”

- Khelsilem Rivers

more languages die each day than species go extinct.   but both are tragic consequences of the same colonial, post-colonial, and neo-colonial greed.  —nb