Source : Sorosoro, posted by Claire Moyse-Faurie on February 21, 2011
Last week Claire Moyse-Faurie described the Oceanian
continent the leader of plurilingualism with its 2,000 languages (1/3 of
the world’s languages) for only 250 million people (under 4% of the
world population). She also explained how the practice of
plurilingualism was natural and un-hierarchized until the colonization
period. Today she proceeds by unveiling the mechanisms that gradually
imposed dominant languages to the expense of local linguistic
multiplicity. Read more...