Icelandic language battles threat of 'digital extinction'

Re:Icelandic language battles threat of 'digital extinction' by Balero on Friday March 02, 2018 @01:02PM (#16504051)

In Wales the Welsh language has had a massive revival. It's taught in schools, and a basic understanding is very common amongst younger generations.

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Re:Icelandic language battles threat of 'digital extinction' by smitherfield on Friday March 02, 2018 @01:29PM (#16504309)

Sure, there's more interest in Welsh in recent decades, but I strongly suspect it will resume declining if it hasn't already.

I used Welsh, Irish, Catalan and French-in-Quebec as examples because they're all languages that declined (to varying degrees) over several centuries under (varying degrees of) government suppression, experienced a partial rebound in interest and popularity in the 20th century after government policy was changed to encourage their use, but ultimately returned to the same trend of declining usage, something like

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     N
     |\_
     |  \_
     |    \_          ____
     |      \_      _/    \_
     |        \____/        \
     N_______________________
    0|suppressed   encouraged

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Re:Icelandic language battles threat of 'digital extinction' by ocschwar on Friday March 02, 2018 @03:24PM (#16505345)

Speaking of declining usage, ASCII art is on the same trajectory.

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