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【演講者及介紹】Daniel Bogre Udell

丹尼爾·博格魯?shù)聽枺Z言活動家。他是Wikitongues的聯(lián)合創(chuàng)始人和董事，他與全球草根語言學家網(wǎng)絡合作，建立了世界上每種語言的種子庫。

【演講主題】如何拯救瀕臨滅絕的語言

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翻譯者 Conway Ye 校對者Yolanda Zhang

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Languages don't just die naturally. Peopleabandon mother tongues, because they're forced to. Often, the pressure ispolitical.

語言不會自動消失。人們被迫拋棄母語，經(jīng)常是因為政治原因。

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In 1892, the US Army general Richard HenryPratt argued that killing indigenous cultures was the only alternative tokilling indigenous people. "Kill the Indian," he said, "but savethe man." And until 1978, the government did just that, removingindigenous children from their families and forcing them into boarding schoolswhere they were given English names and punished for speaking their languages.Assimilation was a compliment to genocide.

在1892年，美國陸軍將軍里查德·亨利·普拉特認為消滅土著文化是取代屠殺的唯一替代方式。他說：“殺了印第安文化，卻不殺人?！敝钡?1978 年，政府一直采取了這樣的措施。讓土著孩子離開家人，逼迫他們?nèi)ゼ乃迣W校，給他們英文名，不讓他們說他們的語言。這種文化的融合和種族滅絕差不多。

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Seven thousand languages are alive today,but few are recognized by their own governments or supported online. So forpeople from the vast majority of cultures, globalization remains profoundlyalienating. It means giving up your language for someone else's. And if nothingchanges, as many as 3,000 languages could disappear in 80 years.

現(xiàn)在世界上有7000種語言，但是被當?shù)卣J可，或在網(wǎng)絡上被認可的寥寥無幾。所以，對于絕大多數(shù)文化背景的人，全球化會讓他們越來越疏遠。這意味著，要為其他語言而放棄自己的母語。如果事情沒有改變的話，3000 種語言會在 80 年之內(nèi)消失。

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But things are changing. Around the world,people are reviving ancestral languages and rebuilding their cultures. As faras we know, language reclamation began in the 1800s when, at a time of risingantisemitism, Jewish communities looked to their ancestral language, Hebrew, asa means of cultural revival. And though it had been dormant for over 1,000years, it was well preserved in books of Jewish religion and philosophy. SoJewish activists studied and taught it to their children, raising the firstnative speakers in nearly 100 generations. Today, it's the mother tongue offive million Jews. And at least for me, an assimilated English-speaking memberof the Jewish diaspora, a pillar of cultural sovereignty. Two thousand yearslater, we're still here.

但是事情正在變化。世界各地，人們都在復活祖先的語言，并重建他們的文化。據(jù)我們所了解的，復蘇語言的工作開始于反猶太主義猖狂的十九世紀，猶太人民認為他們的祖先語言，希伯來語，是一種文化復興的方式。雖然希伯來語已經(jīng)沉睡了一千多年，但它還是被猶太宗教和哲學的書籍完好地保存了下來。所以猶太學者研究了并教育他們的孩子希伯來語，養(yǎng)育了近一百代里的第一代以希伯來語為母語的猶太人?，F(xiàn)在，希伯來語是超過五百萬猶太人的母語。至少對于我來說，作為一個說英語的猶太人，這是文化自治的表現(xiàn)。兩千年后，希伯來語還存在。

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Now, until recently, Hebrew's reawakeningwas an anomaly. Few languages are as well preserved as ours was, and thecreation of Israel, the first Jewish state in over 1,000 years, provided aspace for Hebrew's daily use. In other words, most cultures just weren't given achance.

一直以來，希伯來語的復蘇仍是一件不尋常的事情。很少有語言像希伯來語一樣保存的如此完好，再加上以色列的誕生，這是一千年來第一個猶太國家，讓希伯來語能夠被日常使用。換句話說，很多文化都沒有這樣的機會。

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(Video) Good evening, I'm Elizabeth and Ilive in Cornwall.

（視頻）晚上好，我叫伊麗莎白，我住在康沃爾郡。

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That was Cornish, the ancestral language ofCornwall, which today is technically a county in southern England. In the1900s, Cornish activists fought for their culture. The language had beendormant for over 100 years, but they used old books and plays to teach it totheir children. However, this new generation of Cornish speakers was scatteredacross Cornwall and unable to use the language freely. By the 1990s, Cornishhad reawakened, but it wasn't thriving. Then, in the early 2000s, Cornishspeakers found one another online and leveraged digital spaces to speak on adaily basis. From there, they organized weekly or monthly events where theycould gather and speak in public.

這是康沃爾語，康沃爾的祖先語言。康沃爾是英格蘭南部的一個郡。在二十世紀初，康沃爾語支持者為了他們的文化進行過斗爭。這門語言已經(jīng)沉睡了超過一百年了，但是他們用舊書和話劇來教育他們的孩子。說康沃爾語的新一代零散地散布在康沃爾，不能流暢的使用這門語言。到二十世紀九十年代，康沃爾語開始復蘇，但是并不繁榮。二十一世紀初，說康沃爾語的人找到了一個線上的網(wǎng)絡對話空間。從那之后，他們組織了每周或每月的活動，人們可以在公共場合聚集并交談。

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Today, some schools teach Cornish. Thereare Cornish language signs, ice-cream commercials, Wikipedia, and even memes.

現(xiàn)在，有些學校會教康沃爾語。有康沃爾語的路標，冰淇淋廣告，維基百科，甚至網(wǎng)絡笑話。

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And with their language once again intact,the people of Cornwall have secured recognition as a Celtic nation alongsideIreland, Scotland and Wales. They stared down centuries of forced assimilationand said, "We're not a county in England. We're a people in our own right.And we're still here."

有了完整的語言系統(tǒng)，康沃爾人民已經(jīng)獲得了與愛爾蘭、蘇格蘭和威爾士并列的凱爾特國家的稱號。他們打敗了幾世紀的文化殖民，并宣告：“我們不是英格蘭的一個郡，我們是自己的民族。我們并沒有消失。”

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And they're not the only ones. TheTunica-Biloxi tribe of Louisiana is reviving their ancestral language.

這樣的例子還有很多。路易斯安那州的突尼卡比羅西部落也在復活他們的祖先語言。

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(Video) My name is Teyanna. My friends,they call me "Quiet Storm."

（視頻）“我的名字是泰納。我的朋友叫我'無聲風暴'。”

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It started in the 1980s, when Donna Pieriteand her family started taking trips to Baton Rouge and New Orleans to photocopyold dictionaries stored away in university archives. The goal was to studyTunica and teach it to the children and share it with the community. Today,they're leading a Tunica renaissance. Since 2014, there are nearly 100 speakersin language immersion classes, and according to a 2017 census, 32 new fluentspeakers, some of whom, like Donna's daughter Elisabeth, are teaching Tunica totheir children. These new speakers are creating content, Facebook videos andalso memes.

從二十世紀八十年代開始，唐納·皮里特和她的家人去了巴吞魯日和新奧爾良，復印了大學檔案里的舊字典。他們的目標是為了學習突尼卡語，并教給孩子和社區(qū)里的人們?，F(xiàn)在，他們正引領(lǐng)著突尼卡語的復興。到 2004 年，有近 100 位說突尼卡語的人在上語言課。根據(jù)一個 2017 年的普查，新增了 32 個能流利使用突尼卡語的人，其中有唐納的女兒，伊麗莎白，在教她們的孩子突尼卡語。這些人在創(chuàng)造內(nèi)容，臉書視頻和網(wǎng)絡笑話。

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And the more they publish, the more theyinspire other Tunica people to get involved. Recently, a tribal member livingin Texas wrote Elisabeth on Facebook, asking how to say "bless theselands." It was for a yard sign, so she could show her neighbors that herculture is alive and thriving today.

他們創(chuàng)造得越多，越來越多的突尼卡人就會加入他們。一個住在德州的部落成員在臉書上問伊麗莎白如何說：“保佑這些土地?！眮懋斠粋€院子的標志，所以她可以告訴她的鄰居，她的文化現(xiàn)在還活著并很繁榮。

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Now, Hebrew, Cornish and Tunica are justthree examples from a groundswell of language activism on every continent. Andwhether they're Jèrriais speakers from the Channel Isles, or Kenyan signlanguage speakers from Nairobi, all communities working to preserve or reclaima language have one thing in common: media, so their language can be shared andtaught. And as the internet grows, expanding media access and creation,preserving and reclaiming ancestral languages is now more possible than ever.

希伯來語、康沃爾語和突尼卡語只是世界各地語言復蘇的三個例子。從在海峽群島說耶里亞斯語的人，到在內(nèi)羅畢說肯尼亞手語的人，所有保護和復興一門語言的工作都有一個共同點：媒體。媒體讓語言能夠被分享和教導。隨著互聯(lián)網(wǎng)的增長，媒體的獲取和創(chuàng)造也更簡單了，讓保護和復興祖先語言從未有過的變成了可能。

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So what are your ancestral languages? Mineare Hebrew, Yiddish, Hungarian and Scottish Gaelic, even though I was raised inEnglish. And luckily for me, each of these languages is available online.Hebrew in particular -- it came installed on my iPhone, it's supported byGoogle Translate, it even has autocorrect. And while your language may not beas widely supported, I encourage you to investigate, because chances are,someone, somewhere, has started getting it online.

你的祖先語言是什么？我的是希伯來語、意第緒語、匈牙利語和蘇格蘭蓋爾語，雖然我在英語環(huán)境里長大。我很幸運，這些語言再網(wǎng)上都有。特別是希伯來語，我的手機上就有，谷歌翻譯也支持，甚至還有自動糾錯。即使你的語言沒有很多資源，我也鼓勵你做些研究，因為有可能某個地方的某個人正在開始創(chuàng)造資源。

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Reclaiming your language and embracing yourculture is a powerful way to be yourself in the age of globalization, becauseas I recently learned to say in Hebrew, "'n?nw 'dyyn k'n" -- we'restill here.

復興你的語言和接受自己的文化是在全球化中保持自我的重要方法，正如我剛學會的希伯來語所說，“'n?nw 'dyyn k'n” 我們還存在。

06:41

Thank you.

謝謝。

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