A Study On The Use Of The Sadu Language And Its Endangerment

As an important carrier of culture,language carries a unique historical memory of the ethnic groups,and it also inherits the cultural characteristics of the ethnic groups.The consequence of language endangerment is that the culture,history,customs and even the boundaries of the ethnic groups,blurring with the passing of the language,and finally disappeared.In this point of view,it is important that researching on endangered languages.Because it can not only retain the native language will not be assimilated by other ethnic groups,but also in a timely manner through the timely rescue of the mother tongue in order to retain the local characteristics of culture,and then continue to carry on.Focusing on the ethnic language and maintaining the diversity of ethnic languages has become a common topic and has caused wide public concern in the world.Under the impact of economic globalization and integration,Some minority languages in China are experiencing an unprecedented crisis,and it affects the diversity of language and the harmony of language ecology in varying degrees.In a multilanguage coexistence region,there are inevitable conflict and competition of language.The object of study in this article is Sadu language,which is under such a language environment.The Sadu people lives in two ethnic groups:Han group and Yi group.And the Sadu language,Yi language and Han language are densely distributed.he Sadu people use of two or more than two kinds of language is very common,and the development of language usage is also very complicated.Therefore,the study of the current situation of the use of Sadu language has both significance in the study of the social function of language and the inheritance of ethnic language and culture,and it can also provide a practical basis for the formulation and implementation of language policies and regulationsIn this paper,I choose the Sadu language as the research object and the fieldwork is based on Yuxi City,north of the town of Hongta.That includes three villages:Jiao Yuan,DaShuitang and XinCun.And the methodology includes Swadesh lists,Recording Test Testing,questionnaire,interview and participant observation.After that,I also make a statistical analysis of the field data of the field investigation and make a general exposition of the current situation of the use of the Sadu language.And I find that Sadu language has revealed an endangered trend.I also analyzes the causes of the endangered trend,and put forward some suggestions about it.This paper is divided into those following sections:The first chapter is Introduction:this part mainly includes the reason of choosing the topic,literature review and related research methods;The second part is mainly introduce the historical origin of Sadu and their population distribution,geographical location,economic production,customs and habits,as well as some characteristics of the sadu language.And third part is about the present situation of the use of Sadu language.That mainly discuss the basic situation about Sadu people,Language usage type(monolingualism bilingualism multilingualism),The Sadu language ability,The general situation about Sadu language ability,investigation of the date(Including intergenerational transmission,language user’s attitude,scope of language use,the government’s attitude on their own language),Swadesh lists test and Recording test testingThe forth part mainly discuss Sadu language is an endanger language.This part is mainly based on the United Nations Educational and scientific and Cultural Organization(UNESCO).That mainly concern that endangered language problem of the special group of experts put forward the evaluation index system of endangered language to determine whether if the language is endangerment.The fifth part is mainly based on the analysis of the previous parts and discuss the causes of language loss.The last part is about the inheritance and protection of the Sadu language:this part puts forward some suggestions on the inheritance and protection of the use of the Sadu language.