Talk:List of revived languages
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Histories of these languages always fascinated me. Unfortunately I am neither linguist, nor historian, so please excuse me for my clumsy efforts to present these amazing feats, outstanding in the sea of hundreds of extinct and dying languages. Mikkalai 00:58, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Rename Article
While a list of languages that were formerly reduced but have regained some status or use is a good idea, it simply isn't possible to 'survive oblivion'. A better name would be List of Revived Languages.
- You probably mean List of revived languages. It was late night when I wrote this aricle, and I had no good title, but I really wanted to start it. Let us wait 5 days. If no one suggests anything even smarter, then I will move to this title. Mikkalai 08:41, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Improve conciseness
I just finished cleaning-up the grammar in the paragraph on Mirandese, but the paragraph is still a bit long-winded. It seems like a lot of this information belongs in the main article on Mirandese. The same could probably be said of Belarusian. --InformationalAnarchist 28 June 2005 14:21 (UTC)
I removed Welsh from the list, as I think it's more accurate to say Welsh has been preserved rather than revived. Everyking 06:33, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
- Welsh should not be on this list. Although the number of speakers dropped to a small percentage of those in former times it never died, unlike Cornish. Both languages are growing and being reinvigorated at the moment, with the number of speakers and those with knowledge of the language increasing, and in that sense they're both revived but there is a continuity with Welsh that does not exist with Cornish. Thryduulf 12:09, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Does Irish belong here?
The Irish language may be the first official language of Ireland, but as a spoken and literary language it is widely considered to be in danger of extinction. Should a still-endangered language be on this list? RMoloney (talk) 10:37, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
- If it's no longer "endangered" and now "revived", then it should be here. I would place Welsh on this list, but I don't know if it could ever have been considered "near extinction", though it was certainly surpressed and declined. The Jade Knight 21:17, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Provençal
Neither the article on Provençal nor the entry here show that it was ever endangered and has since made a revival. Why is it listed here? The Jade Knight 21:17, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
I don't understand why occitan is here! It's almost extinct and there's no revival!KekoDActyluS 18:18, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The Czech language
I really don't think Czech belongs to this list. For one thing, it hasn't had, as far as I know, less than 2 million speakers for centuries. Germanisation was present, at least to a limited degree, but was never successful. The Czechs have had their university (in Prague) longer than Slovaks, and a written standard of the Czech language has existed for a very long time. In fact, no effort needed ever be made to revive the language. I think Slovak would be more relevant in this context, because huge efforts were made by the Hungarian government to magyarise the Slovak population in the past. Many people were magyarised, but this was put to an end by the early 1900s. Well, so much for the Czech "revival". —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Michal Tomlein (talk • contribs) 09:18, 5 April 2007 (UTC).
