Linguistic Ideologies of Language Revitalization

Abstract

Language as a human tool kit has several parts (sound system, vocabulary, word, and sentence structure). Language, as a tool kit of a community of the people who speak it, has emotional, ethnic marking, as well as informational uses. Language loss occurs when a speech community shifts away from one language to another as the medium of daily usage. In order to evaluate what people think about language in general or a specifi c language (structure, function/use), we must fi rst understand how a language works and how it fi ts into context. This