Curated theme: Language, well-being, and the environment - sustainability from indigenous linguists' perspective
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)
The natural ecology of language
Sustainable Development Goal 4 - Quality education
Indigenous vs non-indigenous
Problems associated with language endangerment:
Relations between language, well-being, and the environment
Theories of ecology
Understanding of ecology in other fields
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
Indigenous linguist(ic)s
Classifications of Language Endangerement