如何拯救濒危语言?——基于澳大利亚实施原住民语言教学项目以拯救濒危语言的思考

On Saving the Endangered Languages —New Thinking Inspired by Australian Indigenous Language Teaching Programs

在全球一体化时代,如何才能有效保护语言多样性是很多国家都在研究的课题。澳大利亚是世界上濒危语言较多的国家之一,20世纪70年代初以后,政府开始重视濒危语言的研究和保护工作、支持原住民语言教学活动的开展,这在很大程度上延缓了原住民语言的衰退,但仍然不足以挽救原住民语言的命运。如何有效地拯救濒危语言,这是一个值得深入研究的问题。

How to effectively protect linguistic diversity against the background of globalization poses an urgent problem for many countries. Australia is one of the countries with comparatively more endangered languages. Since 1970s, the Australian government has taken various measures to research and protect the endangered languages among which encouraging indigenous language teaching is key, which, to a large degree, has obviously slowed down the process of deterioration of the concerning languages but is still not adequate enough to change their fate of disappearance. Therefore, how to save the endangered languages remains a problem which needs new solutions.