"The thought that leads me to contemplate with dread the erasure of other voices, of unwritten novels, poems whispered or swallowed for fear of being overheard by the wrong people, outlawed languages flourishing underground, essayists' questions challenging authority never being posed, unstaged plays, cancelled films – that thought is a nightmare.
Another defender of youthful language flourishes is Sali Tagliamonte, Linguistics Professor at the University of Toronto and author of Teen Talk: The Language of Adolescents, out this month. .
Both Udmurt and Komi languages have flourishing literatures that have developed primarily since the second half of the 19th century, although written records of Komi exist from the 14th century.
Only a few languages are flourishing: Navaho, spoken in New Mexico and Arizona; Ojibwa, in the northern United States and southern Canada; Cherokee, in Oklahoma and North Carolina; and Dakota-Assiniboin, in the northern portions of the midwestern United States.
In some of these languages there is a flourishing written literature today in particular for Nilotic languages such as Luo or Acholi.
The short story in particular has flourished in the language; notable practitioners are Mahichandra Bora and Holiram Deka.
My love of language flourished during undergrad at Tufts, where I studied English, began writing lyrics, and continued doing puzzles.
But you've only got one head and you can't concentrate on everything, so while one language flourishes another atrophies.
Several factors explain the party's varying fortunes in the devolved bits of mainland Britain.The first is that although the Welsh language flourishes (arguably because Welsh-medium schools offer a way for richer parents to enjoy academic selection), the region remains close to England, sharing, for example, the English press.
