Aboriginal Quote by David Crystal

Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.

— S. I. Hayakawa

The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of communication and…

— John Ralston Saul

It doesn't take a language long to disappear once the spirit to continue with it leaves its community. In fact, the speed of the…

— David Crystal

“Language is a bountiful gift and its usage, an elaboration of community and society, is a sacred work. Language and usage evolve over time:…

— Muriel Barbery

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing…

— Robert MacNeil

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

— Adrienne Rich

There's nothing unusual about a single language dying. But what's going on today is extraordinary when we compare the situation to what has happened…

— David Crystal

Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Every time another tribe becomes extinct and their language dies, another way of life and another way of understanding the world disappears forever. Even…

— Stephen Corry

Indigenous languages are Canada's national treasures. They are our identity. We simply have to put greater effort into rejuvenating and revitalizing them. It is…

— Perry Bellegarde

There's a tremendous amount of language loss. Most of the attention is given to indigenous languages, which makes sense, but some of the most…

— Noam Chomsky

We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the…

— Chinua Achebe