[Assam] Losing the Language - Irish to English

[Rajen & Ajanta Barua]

Umesh:
Interesting. Compared to that Assamese are fortunate that I don't think 
there is any concern for losing the Assamese language although many people 
are worried for nothing.
BTW is there some predictions which are the languages that will be lost 
during next 50 or 100 years.?
Rajenda

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "umesh sharma" <jaipurschool at yahoo.com>
To: <assam at assamnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 11:23 PM
Subject: [Assam] Losing the Language - Irish to English


> Hi,
>
> I just met an Irish singer from Dublin and was surprised to learn that he 
> couldn't speak Irish (Gaelic) since as he said " In Ireland it is easier 
> to find Chinese speaking persons than Irish/Gaelic speaking people." This 
> is despite that fact that Irish is compulsory is schools - for 16 years of 
> schooling.
>
> He told me that Scotland has its own version called Scot-Gaelic but it too 
> is losing ground to English  - only 50,000 speakers though 5 million 
> Scots. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic_language
>
> Surprisingly he said there is no revolt or bad feeling that Irish has been 
> taken over by English - depsite IRA violence in Northen Ireland (and rest 
> of UK) till recent times
>
> Umesh
>
> PS:: We are delighted that Luke Slott will be back at Tiny Planet to warm 
> the room with his radiant spirit and music.  This time Luke will be 
> singing some of his original songs with piano and guitar.
>
>
> Umesh Sharma
>
> Washington D.C.
>
> 1-202-215-4328 [Cell]
>
> Ed.M. - International Education Policy
> Harvard Graduate School of Education,
> Harvard University,
> Class of 2005
>
> http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info)
>
> http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info)
>
>
>
>
> www.gse.harvard.edu/iep  (where the above 2 are used )
> http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/
>
>
>
> http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/
>
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