Language Landscape and Vitality of National Language

Language Landscape and Vitality of National Language

Language is the carrier of culture, and different national languages represent different cultural identities and cultural inheritance. Language landscape refers to the comprehensive situation of the form, quantity, quality, types and usage of languages used by people in a certain geographical range. The change of language landscape shows the influence on cultural identity. The vitality of national language refers to the use and attitude of national groups towards its language. Language landscape affects the vitality of national language, and the vitality of national language in turn affects the changes of language landscape, which constitutes an interactive relationship.

The influence of the change of language landscape on the vitality of minority languages

Factors such as urbanization, globalization and immigration make the language landscape constantly changing, and traditional languages are gradually replaced by more popular languages in some areas. At the same time, due to the economic and cultural development of some ethnic groups, the national cultural identity is out of order to a certain extent, and the inheritance of national languages is gradually challenged. For these changes, users of national languages show different attitudes, showing differences in affinity and recognition of ancestral languages.

Some ethnic groups are still full of love and recognition for their own language, actively protect and inherit it, and carry forward and inherit the language of their ancestors through education, publishing, literary and artistic works, religious activities and other means. The strategy is wise and the effect is remarkable. However, other ethnic groups have gradually lost confidence and interest in using their ancestral languages, with fewer language users and serious forgetfulness, preferring to use mainstream languages. The language situation of these groups is worrying. If we don't take targeted measures to maintain the language, the language of our ancestors may gradually disappear.

The influence of the vitality of minority languages on the development of language landscape

The development of the vitality of minority languages also has a great influence on the change of language landscape. The strong vitality of national language can promote the inheritance and promotion of language, promote the prosperity and development of community economy and culture, and then affect the development of language landscape. The vitality of a national language directly affects the number of language users, even the form and quality of language use in specific blocks. Due to various influences, some small and weak groups gradually lost the vitality of the national language and became poor and weak groups in language, and their position in the language pattern continued to decline, and finally they were replaced by more powerful languages.

For those ethnic groups with strong language vitality, they present relative language advantages and occupy an important position in the region, which has a great influence on the language form and development of nearby groups. At the same time, due to the strong vitality of some ethnic languages, their language status has risen, which makes language teaching and research better guaranteed, and more language resources are fully tapped and utilized, thus stimulating the development of a more dynamic and healthy language landscape.

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Therefore, language landscape and national language vitality are interdependent and interrelated. When one side changes, the other side will change accordingly. Protecting and inheriting national languages and fully stimulating the vitality of national languages are important means to ensure comprehensive, healthy and sustainable development of language landscape and promote cultural diversity, which should be paid attention to.