Will the English language ever die?
Monday, October 24, 2011 - 09:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
These cultural conventions are indicative of how a language impacts the worldview of the people who speak it. In Martu, an Aboriginal language from Western Australian, black and all dark colours are maru or maru-maru while in Vietnamese both green and blue are xanh. The Saami of northern Scandinavia have hundreds of words for different types of snow like vuoe (wet snow), ritni (crusted snow) and chiegar (old snow dug up a reindeer).