Annotated bibliography: 1+2

The first source, I chose, is a fairly large book, however, I will only be using a portion of the chapters. In the book, "Language Diversity Endangered" Benninger insists that there are many diverse languages and aspects to one's culture. Relaying the idea that when it comes to identity, language plays a huge role in that aspect. I will be using this excerpt to strengthen my introduction and second body paragraph.

Matthias Brenzinger. Language Diversity Endangered. De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspxdirect=true&AuthType=ip,url,uid&db=e000xna&AN=1819999&site=eds-live&scope=site.

For this source, I found, a sort of informational article providing facts and history behind the Kutchi language. It has things such as the way of writing, wherein India and other parts of the world it is spoken, and the number of people that speak said language. Initially, when I found this, I was shocked because after telling my family that I had chosen this topic, they said that it would be difficult to find many sources. That is also a part of the reason why I chose a broader topic. I will be using this to strengthen my introduction, by adding a few facts and history behind the language. Then I will also use this article in my last paragraph when focusing on the language.

“Heritage Voices: Language - Center for Applied Linguistics.” Heritage Voices: Language – Kutchi, https://www.cal.org/heritage/pdfs/heritage-voice-language-kutchi.pdf.

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After reading this article, I decided to apply this to my second body paragraph, focusing on the idea of preserving languages, and their importance. I will tie this into why language involves our identity. In this source, they also mention how they preserve languages, which I thought was very interesting, so I will be providing that in the argument regarding a larger aspect of the many endangered languages there are in the world, and the lengths they take to try and protect/save them.

De Dominicis, Amedeo. Undescribed and Endangered Languages : The Preservation of Linguistic Diversity. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2006. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,url,uid&db=e000xna&AN=532292&site=eds-live&scope=site.

I chose this source after listening to one of my classmate's topics, I thought it was easier, as mentioned before to focus on larger aspects so I am not stuck when researching more information about my topic. Fialkowski, mentions how languages grow and become more common and used throughout the world. They also mention what really is a language and how it became. I thought that may be interesting, because providing the opposite of what I am saying, will allow me to point out the key reasons why a language becomes endangered.

Fialkowski, Konrad R. “On the Evolution of Language.” Current Anthropology, vol. 35, no. 4, [University of Chicago Press, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research], 1994, pp. 445–48, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2744000.

5) Anthony Woodbury is currently a professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. Woodbury mostly focuses on the indigenous language of the Americas and how they influence the diversity in human linguistics. After reading this article, I believe it would be a proper source for my work. I am intrigued by past/ancient languages and my family is one of the last speakers of a dying language as well. The main points mentioned in this text, are, how to differentiate between an endangered language from a dead language, and how to properly preserve an endangered language. Honestly, I did not quite know the difference between a dead language and an endangered. So I believe that I have definitely learned something from reading this article. After reading this article, I got a sense of how linguists work so hard to preserve the many languages going extinct today, and the major consequences a community encounters when a language is extinct such as a loss of their cultural identity. I will use this article to back up my argument about the loss of people's cultural identity when their own language has gone extinct, also to differentiate the meaning of a dead and endangered language.

Woodbury, Anthony. Linguistic Society of America, www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/faq-what-endangered-language

6) Thesis Statement:

Endangered languages play a huge role in our world's past, present, and future.

7) I found another encyclopedia type of website that provided me with more information on Kutchi. I thought it was interesting because I always find something new I did not know about the language. I will be adding this information into the introduction, and a little portion of my first body paragraph.

The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica. "Kachchhi language." The Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kachchhi-language/additional-info#history

Introduction:

There are over 7000 living languages spoken across South Asia. These languages belong to people's culture and identity, so when they go extinct, a big part of themselves are also lost.

However small a community, a culture still lives on through its language. When a language is lost, so is someone's identity.

10) Peer review: After receiving feedback from a classmate, I changed my introduction and conclusion just a little, to properly summarize and introduce my topic, without giving too much detail in the introduction, and repeating most of what was mentioned in the body paragraphs, in my conclusion.