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E4 Det Disappearing Languages Script
1. ENGLISH LISTENING
DISAPPEARING LANGUAGES
DISAPPEARING LANGUAGES
EYAK
FROM : BBC LEARNING ENGLISH, WORDS IN THE NEWS, TUESDAY 5 MAY 2009
Marie Smith Jones (May 14, 1918 –
January 21, 2008) was the last
surviving speaker of the Eyak
language of Southcentral Alaska.[1]
She was born in Cordova, Alaska,
was an honorary chief of the Eyak
Nation and the last remaining full-
blooded Eyak.[2] In a 2005 interview,
Smith Jones explained that her
name in Eyak is Udach' Kuqax*a'a'ch
which, she said, translates as "a
Chief Marie Smith Jones in 2004
sound that calls people from afar".
1 When a language dies, UNESCO says the world loses valuable cultural heritage - a great deal
2 of the legends, poems and the knowledge gathered by generations is simply lost. In 2008,
3 Alaska's last native speaker of Eyak died, taking the language with her.
4 Marie Smith Jones praying in Eyak
5 Chief Marie Smith Jones, praying here for the survival of the Eyaks. She died at the age of
6 eighty-nine, campaigning to save her people's heritage.
7 UNESCO says government action is needed if the world is to preserve its linguistic diversity.
8 People must be proud to speak their language to ensure it survives.
9 In the last five years, the governments of Mexico, New Zealand and the United States
10 managed to reverse the trend locally. But UNESCO says the phenomenon of dying languages
11 appears in every region and in very diverse economic conditions.
Leonardo Rocha, BBC
PHOTO FROM: http://indiancountrynews.net
'It's like bombing the Louvre'
Marie Smith Jones was the world's last Eyak speaker - by the time she died last week, she could use
her mother tongue only in her dreams. But the loss of a language is not just a personal tragedy, says
Mark Abley, it is a cultural disaster
2. ENGLISH LISTENING
DISAPPEARING LANGUAGES
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jan/28/usa.features11
![ENGLISH LISTENING
DISAPPEARING LANGUAGES
DISAPPEARING LANGUAGES
EYAK
FROM : BBC LEARNING ENGLISH, WORDS IN THE NEWS, TUESDAY 5 MAY 2009
Marie Smith Jones (May 14, 1918 –
January 21, 2008) was the last
surviving speaker of the Eyak
language of Southcentral Alaska.[1]
She was born in Cordova, Alaska,
was an honorary chief of the Eyak
Nation and the last remaining full-
blooded Eyak.[2] In a 2005 interview,
Smith Jones explained that her
name in Eyak is Udach' Kuqax*a'a'ch
which, she said, translates as "a
Chief Marie Smith Jones in 2004
sound that calls people from afar".
1 When a language dies, UNESCO says the world loses valuable cultural heritage - a great deal
2 of the legends, poems and the knowledge gathered by generations is simply lost. In 2008,
3 Alaska's last native speaker of Eyak died, taking the language with her.
4 Marie Smith Jones praying in Eyak
5 Chief Marie Smith Jones, praying here for the survival of the Eyaks. She died at the age of
6 eighty-nine, campaigning to save her people's heritage.
7 UNESCO says government action is needed if the world is to preserve its linguistic diversity.
8 People must be proud to speak their language to ensure it survives.
9 In the last five years, the governments of Mexico, New Zealand and the United States
10 managed to reverse the trend locally. But UNESCO says the phenomenon of dying languages
11 appears in every region and in very diverse economic conditions.
Leonardo Rocha, BBC
PHOTO FROM: http://indiancountrynews.net
'It's like bombing the Louvre'
Marie Smith Jones was the world's last Eyak speaker - by the time she died last week, she could use
her mother tongue only in her dreams. But the loss of a language is not just a personal tragedy, says
Mark Abley, it is a cultural disaster](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/e4detdisappearinglanguagesscript-091111183803-phpapp01/85/E4-Det-Disappearing-Languages-Script-1-320.jpg)
