Indledning
In the short story "The Only Speaker of His Tongue", David Malouf imagines the encounter between a Nordic lexicographer and the last speaker of a certain Australian language.
As the lexicographer reflects about the threat that the loss of a language poses to cultural diversity, he also exposes his views on the possibilities of language.
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Uddrag
He fully believes that the blood from your ancestors lives in us and that it is our élan vital. He sees our language as the only heritage we have from our ancestors
that the language is in our bloodline and therefore the closest we come to understanding and learning about the history of our people.
History is the greatest mystery, because of the different things that happen from generation to generation. But you can say that if the language was not there, there would be no stories to tell and to pass through generations.
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