Curated theme: Language, well-being, and the environment - sustainability from indigenous linguists' perspective

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This page attempts to show some examples of indigenous researchers' work in linguistics on the relation between language, well-being, and the environment. The aim is to highlight how these studies can be applied in creating and working towards a more sustainable linguistics.

What is sustainable linguistics?

Sustainable linguistics (definition)

Sustainability in linguistics

The natural ecology of language

Sustainable Development Goal 4 - Quality education

Relations between language, well-being, and the environment

Theories

Theory of the Organism-Environment System

  • organism and its environment form a system, the activity of which is called reorganization. The organism would not exist without the environment, and without the organism the environment would not be the same.

Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainable Development Goal 3 - Good health and well-being
Sustainable Development Goal 10 - Reduced inequalities

  • Participation in one's own language, dialect, variety, idiolect - without stigmas

Sustainable Development Goal 13 - Climate action

Sustainable Development Goal 15 - Life on land

  • Connection between biological and language diversity

Other

Understanding of ecology in other fields

Indigenous linguist(ic)s

Classifications of Language Endangerement


Suggestions for a more sustainable linguistics

Language Revitalization