濒危语言能救活吗?——语言学的分析

Can Endangered Languages Be Regenerated?——A linguistic analysis

语言有发达与欠发达之分,区分标志是:有无文字、词汇量大小与书籍数量的大小。语言濒危的内在原因是不能满足需求。今天要抢救濒危语言,就要设法使其能够满足社会进行尖端科学研究和大规模现代化生产活动的需求,满足社会成员追求较好的物质享受与精神享受的需求。

Languages can be divided into the developed and the underdeveloped.The author puts forth three criteria： writing form,amounts of vocabulary,and the number of books.The most important internal cause that makes languages endangered is that they cannot meet the needs of the society.An endangered language can be regenerated only through creating a writing form,introducing enough words into it,and translating large number of books into it so that it is able to meet the social demand for cutting-edge scientific research and large-scale modern production activities,and the needs of people to pursuit a better material and spiritual enjoyment.