dimanche 28 septembre 2014

                         Disapearing Languages

The language that I selected comes from the Eastern Siberia and it is call Tofa. I choose it because it is very endanmaged and it could disapear during the next few years. In additional, I never heard it before I want to know more about Siberian's cultures.



It is a "Dying Language" because for 10 months of each year, the three remote villages in the eastern Sayan mountains of south Siberia where the 731 members of the Tofa Nation live are accessible only by helicopter or small 1950s vintage bi-planes. In the dead of winter, visitors can drive along frozen rivers in an all-terrain truck to reach the villages. The Tofas’ extreme isolation has proved to be both a hardship and a benefit as they struggle with the impending loss of their language.

This language could stay alive if the small people refuse to speak Russian and if they improve their living conditions so that they will have  tourists who will learn their language and also that older persons writes some novels in their language. In addition if they teach languages ​​to young people.

5 slangs words for my generation

  • Busted: To say someone is busted is to mean they are ugly.
  • Tope: It is something cool, it is a combination of tight and dope
  • Frenemy: It is a combination of friend and enemy, it is a person who appears on one hand to be your friend but at the same time is antagonistic towards you.
  • Gangsta: is a person who is both tough and cool a the same time.
  • Flop: which mean a planned event does not happen.



My generation could keep this language alive if we commits every possible way to learn the language, like humor,expressions and others.




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