WILL THEY SURVIVE THE MARGINS?

• Endangered language and oral traditions on

Kenya
 About kenya
• “Kenya is a multilingual country in which over
40 languages are spoken;
English is used in education, for official purposes
and international communication, while
Kiswahili is the national language and is used in
the political arena,
 Kenya Regional Language & Cast
• Yaaku • Boni
• Bong’om • Kore
• Kony • Kinare
• Lorkoti
• Okiek • Sogoo
• Omotik • Dahalo
• Elmolo • Lorkoti
• Suba • Ongamo
• terek • segeju
 The Yaaku
 According to recent research by UNESCO and
the Kenya network
• In year 1983- 250 people ware there
• In present only 3 fluent speakers is there
• Omotik- 50 or fewer
• Okiek- 200 people out of 20,000
• El molo- 8 people out of 300
• Bong’om- 39 out of 25,00
• suba
 WHAT IS AN ENDANGERED LANGUAGE
• An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling
out of use. If it loses all its native speakers, it becomes a dead
language.
• A language is an danger when its speakers cease to use it.
• It is language spoken by a minority of people in the nation
and for that reason, it is held in low steem.
 LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
• “a lost language is a lost culture, a lost culture is invaluable
knowledge lost." 
• Languages are truly instruments of our perception of
reality, as they influence the way we perceive things in our
environment, the way we think, the way we act and speak as
well as the way we behave in any given social context
• language has continued to serve as the medium for passing on
knowledge, skills and desirable predispositions from one
generation to the next. Culture as we understand it, is
conveyed through language interaction.
 SOLUTIONS
•  UNESCO's campaign for the protection of
endangered languages.
• Language maintenance, language development
,language revitalisation and language
perpetuation
• Internet is becoming a tool for preserving
endangered language.
• Diversity
• Government providing language teachers
 THE PALIYANS OF KERLA
• Paliyans are an indigenous people
• Regions- Madurai, Dindigul, Thirunelveli and
Virudhunagar in Tamilnadu
• Idukki distric in Kerla
• In 1901- 29,243 was there
• In present- 7000 is there
• They are nomadic, semi-no-madic or settled
• Settled palyans- mostly agricultural labourers
• Looking similar with south and south Asian
• Now speak mixture of Tamil and Malayalam