One of the reasons why languages go extinct is because of a nomadic way of life through which smaller ethnic groups are absorbed culturally and linguistically by the dominant communities. Interactions, trade and inter-marriages are also factors that lead to language death. a good example is the Kinare, formerly spoken around the eastern slopes of Rift Valley, Kenya that has since gone extinct. According to the Encyclopedia of the World’s Endangered Languages, the remnants currently speak Kikuyu. In fact, a study by German professor Franz Rottland in the late 1970s and early 80s found a few old men from Kinare in 1976, married with Kikuyu women and integrated in the Kikuyu culture, “whose parents had lived in the forests around Kinare as honey-gathering Ogiek.”
Posted on: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 02:44:05 +0000
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