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Subject ： language in the world

Language：the principal method of human communication, consisting of words used in a structured and conventional way and conveyed by speech, writing, or gesture.

Main idea：

Humans worry about global biodiversity, endangered plants and endangered animals, which is good, but few people worry about endangered species and their languages, cultures, rituals, and myths.

Dr. Tatsuya Amano, found that “as economies develop, one language often comes to dominate a nation’s political and educational spheres.” As such, of the 6,000 or so languages spoken throughout the world, more than half the planet’s population speaks English, Russian, Mandarin, Hindi, and Spanish, explains MIT Technology Review, which calls this a “perilous state of affairs.” Along with the next hundred most popular languages, this accounts for nearly 95% of speakers — meaning just 5% of the globe speak the rest.

The purpose of this work is not to try to restore or preserve all endangered languages. What is more important is to let people know that these cultures once existed, while enhancing their self-esteem (speaker of endangered languages) and encouraging them to believe that they and their culture are Unique and valuable. The protection of endangered languages is not about splitting the world into different people, but respecting the uniqueness of specific cultural identities, which has great value.

It's exciting that art can really promote the status and popularity of endangered languages and cultures. According to the artist moring, small language speakers think that it is very encouraging for Finnish artists to come to Finno Ugric to discuss the issue of language protection.

Humans worry about global biodiversity, endangered plants and endangered animals, which is good, but few people worry about endangered minorities and their languages, cultures, rituals, and myths.

• Your methods of research and principle areas of research.

eight endangered languages are identified as the main research content. I will understand the culture behind these words by watching a large number of documentaries, books, press releases, etc

The perfect combination of language and culture is poetry, songs, music and so on. I will focus on these aspects. Poetry can be the starting point of the whole project.

Back to the language itself, I will focus on the writing, pronunciation and grammar. Research methods may be: for the second creation of text patterns, through the recording device to analyze the sound waves of different languages, compare the grammar of different languages

The research field involves human sociology, linguistics, communication and so on.

The forms and methods of working in relation to your Initial Concept. e.g. Media, print,

It is hoped that this theme can be presented through different art forms such as printing, recording, photography, installation, technology exhibition.

Studies have shown that with the rapid development of the Internet, social media can become a new means of saving endangered languages. "Social media could help save a language," Dr Sytsema says. "Because young people text each other how they speak, even if they don't know how to spell it." Therefore, I will try to involve social media in my work, Place interactive devices both online and offline.（Installation can be an interactive device that combines sound and image)

other:

Printmaking - repeated printing and recording of words

Carbon paper - through the repeated copying of words / poems, to convey the fuzzy area of translation between different language

Candle carving: the process of carving, burning and re solidifying and finally disappearing is like the extinction of words

Puppets, animation and song breathe new life into endangered language