#extinct language

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This side blog will be for learning Saxtti and Bardeskari Konkani which are dialects of a language spoken in the north and south of a tropical state called Goa in the west of India.

Due to portuguese colonisation as well as several attempts from India to supress the language and culture Konkani is a spoken language. While there may be ~2 million native speakers accoriding to a 2011 census, that number includes dialects belonging to different parts of India including Maharashtra, Kerala, Karnataka, Gujurat, Daman and Diu. So the number of native Goan Konkani speakers is far lower.

Konkani is continuing to die out due to lack of native speakers, migration and of course the attempts to get rid of it which also causes a lack of resources and structure. While I am starting with learning it as a spoken language I hope to progress enough and figure out how to read and write as well. I will have to learn about grammar, sentence structure etc so I will also post about that.

If you are also attempting to learn a sort of or fully dead/extinct language please interact so we can share this struggle together lol :))

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So I remember learning in college history class about endangered language groups in Eastern Europe and how some of them lobbied to be counted as ‘nations’ but weren’t considered large enough. It occurred to me today to wonder if this is still a widespread issue. Did you know that Wikipedia lists 19 languages as having gone extinct since 2000? Boy, what is that? And then I thought, “hey, isn’t that almost a terrible metaphor for dying Tumblr fandoms, like how I’m one of 3 people in the Paul Dano fandom and this is a commercial to try to get people to join us?”