It is almost clear that digital content per sé it is not good or bad in relation of “minoritized” languages as it happens for knives, you can cut bred or kill someone. Let us analyse the process in a long-term perspective. Documents and different formats, media and alphabets survived for centuries and millennia reaching us as a legacy from past generations. They are still accessible, readable and mostly understandable. In Pompei (Naples) we can still read graffiti on plasters promoting a Roman politician or supporting a local sport team. Furthermore ancient minority languages such as Etruscan are still readable as well. What will happen in 50, 100 or more years to our documents and, much more concerning, to documents written in “minoritized” languages?

National Languages and “minoritized” languages in a long-term perspective

RONCHI, ALFREDO
2015-01-01

Abstract

It is almost clear that digital content per sé it is not good or bad in relation of “minoritized” languages as it happens for knives, you can cut bred or kill someone. Let us analyse the process in a long-term perspective. Documents and different formats, media and alphabets survived for centuries and millennia reaching us as a legacy from past generations. They are still accessible, readable and mostly understandable. In Pompei (Naples) we can still read graffiti on plasters promoting a Roman politician or supporting a local sport team. Furthermore ancient minority languages such as Etruscan are still readable as well. What will happen in 50, 100 or more years to our documents and, much more concerning, to documents written in “minoritized” languages?
2015
Multilingualism in Cyberspace
978-5-91515-068-9
multilingualism, minoritized languages, cyberspace
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