... culture and ethnicity. So I decided to "bite the bullet" and compose a short summary of the main points as well as a simple graph which should visualize this important aspect. After this general introduction, I tried to collect as many voices as possible on the issue whether language revival is obsolete or not. To be more precise, I investigated the question if language revival is a slowdown of social evolution. In the following point, this problem is visualized by an example out of the present situation in Latvia, where Russian people are discriminated because of their culture and heritage. Chapter 3 of my term paper copes with language loss in general. Reasons why language loss occurs and its impact on a society are investigated. The very last section consists of several theoretical approaches how to revive or revitalize languages, as well as a very interesting report on Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the man ...

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