My Attitude toward My Own Language

I speak my own language
because
that's who I am.

We teach our children our favourite language,
because
we want them to know who they are.

(Christine Johnson, Tohono O'odham elder, American Indian Language Development Institute,
June, 2002)

If you don't breathe,
there is no air.
If you don't walk,
there is no earth.
If you don't speak,
there is no word.

(Paraphrased by Yamamoto from a Navajo elder's words, PBS-TV Millennium Series Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World, hosted by David Maybury-Lewis aired on May 24,1992)

ဂလာန်တံဂှ် ကံက်နၚ်နူတၞးလိက် Language Vitality and Endangerment မတက်တရးပတိတ် နူဂကောံ UNESCO၊ ပရူဒဒှ်လိက်ဂှ် ညးဟီုဂးလဝ် ပရူဒြဟတ်အရေဝ်ဘာသာဂကူမွဲမွဲ ကဵု အန္တရာဲအရေဝ်ဘာသာဂကူမွဲမွဲ၊၊ ပရူတံဂှ် ညးချူလဝ် ပ္ဍဲလိက်ကၞပ် The Red Book of Languages in Danger of Disappearing ၊၊ သၟိက်တီပရူဒဒှ်တံဂှ်မ္ဂး ပံက်ဗှ်မုက်လိက်ဝေပ်သိုက် UNESCO ဏံညိ၊၊