Which languages are dying in Europe?

Hispanic   Fri Mar 06, 2009 7:37 pm GMT
French is dying everywhere.
Alessandro   Fri Mar 06, 2009 8:44 pm GMT
In Italy we are losting 5 languages.

Gardiol with 340 speakers (occitan dialect)
Griko Salentino 20.000 speakers (greek dialect)
Griko Calabro 2.000 speakers (greek dialect)
Töitschu from Valle d'Aosta 200 speakers (german dialect)
Croato molisano 5.000 speakers (croat dialect)

http://www.corriere.it/cronache/09_marzo_01/unesco_allarme_lingue_perdute_d615efc2-0617-11de-bafb-00144f02aabc.shtml
Lost in Space   Fri Mar 06, 2009 10:17 pm GMT
"In Italy we are losting 5 languages. "

You seem to be losting English too.
12345   Fri Mar 06, 2009 11:06 pm GMT
«more Fri Mar 06, 2009 11:23 am GMT
Low Saxon(Low German) and Dutch are so closely related,that they must treating as dialects (like Norwegian,Danish and Swedish or French and Waloon,or Portuguese and Galician). »

Maybe, but many people from the west, Amsterdam, Rotterdam etc have serious difficulties with us from the north-east. (Netherlands). Also our Low-Saxon grammar is different. I'd even say it's closer in pronunciation to German than Dutch.
Guest   Fri Mar 06, 2009 11:17 pm GMT
Da igual que se pierdan lenguas. El español es una lengua tan infinitamente bella que las demás sobran.
Realist   Fri Mar 06, 2009 11:35 pm GMT
<<If Dutch is dying, wouldn't Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Icelandic, Faroese, etc. all be in the same boat? >>

All of these languages are not yet dying but are definitely on the wrong side of middle aged. Perhaps recently retired. Set to spend a long while yet at home, enjoying retirement. Then things will begin to spiral, and they will spend another while in a retirement home, and then finally they will become decrepit and finally die.
K B   Fri Mar 06, 2009 11:42 pm GMT
"Da igual que se pierdan lenguas. El español es una lengua tan infinitamente bella que las demás sobran. "

Guest, lo que dijiste no tiene sentido. ¿cómo puedes decir algo así? O sea, no entiendes que todos los idiomas son importantes. Yo hablo español y sí, es muy bello pero lo que dijiste no tiene nombre. Hombre, necesitas enseñanza. O sea, lo que compartiste con nosotros es muy ignorante.
Guest   Fri Mar 06, 2009 11:53 pm GMT
<<Guest, lo que dijiste no tiene sentido. ¿cómo puedes decir algo así? O sea, no entiendes que todos los idiomas son importantes. Yo hablo español y sí, es muy bello pero lo que dijiste no tiene nombre. Hombre, necesitas enseñanza. O sea, lo que compartiste con nosotros es muy ignorante. >>

Hola. Espero que mueras ahora mismo junto con todos los idiomas que están demás, hijueputa.
Guest   Sat Mar 07, 2009 12:19 am GMT
Los idiomas son como los seres vivos, desaparecen los más débiles y sobreviven los fuertes.
Kroll   Sat Mar 07, 2009 5:31 am GMT
Here is an article about Alarm Raised on World's Disappearing.

Languageshttp://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0515-05.htm
CommonAswhole   Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:32 am GMT
Frisian seems to be dying. Sorbian as well. Scottish Gaelic too, even Irish Gaelic is being threatened. Welsh is winning ground though. Bretonic perhaps will still survive at least a century. Manx is still spoken, but not as a first language, it will die soon. Walloon appears to be dying as well, yet youngsters tend to still speak it next to French, they never appear to speak Walloon with strangers.

There are many more.

If it dies peacefully, I will not mourn the death of a language. If dies due to ignorant and arrogant imperialism, I'll always support it.

Bretons, Basques, Flemish in France, they have my support. France is a very oppressive nation. Belgium used to be as well, due to French mentality.
TaylorS   Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:41 am GMT
Occitan, Low German, Frisian, and all the Celtic languages. :-(

The decline of Occitan, the great cultural language of the High Middle Ages, especially is an outrage.
CommonAswhole   Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:42 am GMT
"All of these languages are not yet dying but are definitely on the wrong side of middle aged. Perhaps recently retired. Set to spend a long while yet at home, enjoying retirement. Then things will begin to spiral, and they will spend another while in a retirement home, and then finally they will become decrepit and finally die. "

Luckily, it being threatened by friendly anglophones, and not by French. Don't make a mistake. Flemish in Flanders will not stop speaking Dutch until we lose Belgium and are finally able to strife toward a Dutch commonwealth. It's in no way being threatened by French, in fact, our French sucks compared to that of older ignorant Belgian nationalist generations who are selfloathing underdogs.

Actually, it would not be a bad ideas for every Fleming to switch places with a Dutchman. Dutch people would already have declared Flemish independence. Flemish people though, need a strong patient leader able to convince an awkwardly stubborn crowd.
rychag   Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:53 am GMT
Dutch isn't dying. However, it will never be any more important than it is now. The only way is down.
CommonAswhole   Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:57 am GMT
"The decline of Occitan, the great cultural language of the High Middle Ages, especially is an outrage."

The French government, consistant of mainly monolingiustic numbskulls with not even insight in the simplist of linguistic concepts, they dare to call Occitan a French dialect. Occitan, that has more in common with Catalonian...
This was a great literary language as well, and it's dying due to a 19th century-minded imperialistic republic. French are willing to destroy this cultural heritage all for the sake of national unity.

Occitan people and there language are no threat to France, they're no Germanics and they tend to feel at home in France. All Occitans speak French as a second primary language, heck, almost all Romanians speak French as a secondary language, and their language is a lot more different than Occitan.
Paranoia does bad things to people... Even Spain, a country that hasn't officially broken with its fascist past for obvious realistic reasons (and still has the tendencies of the Franco regime in a super light version) has more respect for even Basque people (who are oppressed in both Spain and France) than France has for friendly Corsicans and Occitans.