Curated theme: The relevance of addressing language endangerment for attaining the SDGs

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In general, addressing language endangerment enables the providing of information and services in the native languages of communities, and thereby help in attaining the Sustainable Development Goals. The objective of addressing language endangerment is to maintain languages and prevent language extinction, which, then, provides the opportunity to produce information relevant to the objectives of the SDGs in the native languages of each community. This in turn allows the people whom the SDGs concern the opportunity themselves to influence matters and to contribute to achieving the SDGs.

Addressing language endangerment[edit | edit source]

Language Endangerment

Approaches to Language Endangerement

Language Revitalization

Goals of Revitalization

Language documentation and description

Understanding interdisciplinarity

How language relates to the Sustainable Development Goals[edit | edit source]

Sustainable development goals

The following are among the SDGs that are most directly influenced by addressing language endangerment:

Sustainable Development Goal 3 - Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Sustainable Development Goal 4 - Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

Sustainable Development Goal 5 - Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Sustainable Development Goal 10 - Reduce inequality within and among countries

Sustainable Development Goal 13 - Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

Sustainable Development Goal 16 - Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

Language ecologies with ties to language and SDGs[edit | edit source]

The sociocultural ecology of language

The symbolic ecology of language