User talk:Emaregretable

Some baklava for you!

Yumm yumm let's make some of this, using only sustainably planted goods. Thecfed (talk) 14:44, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

A bowl of strawberries for you!

Because you're awesome. OlenkaFawkes (talk) 15:51, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

Thought jots

Check this out. There are cool pictures as well : http://www.terralingua.org/overview-bcd/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thecfed (talk • contribs) 15:28, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

loss of biodiversity as threat to society... http://www.unep.org/geo/GEO4/report/GEO-4_Report_Full_en.pdf

• Maffi, L. (ed.) (2001). On Biocultural Diversity: Linking Language, Knowledge, and the

Environment. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC

• connection to "ethnobiology"
• Stepp, J. R., Castaneda, H. and Cervone, S. (2005). Mountains and biocultural

diversity. In Mountain Research and Development 25(3):223-227

• Carlson, T.J.S. and Maffi, L. (eds.) (2004). Ethnobotany and Conservation of

Biocultural Diversity. Advances in Economic Botany Series Vol. 15. New York Botanical Garden Press, Bronx, NY

• Biocultural Diversity: Moving beyond the Realm of 'Indigenous' and 'Local' People

Michelle Cocks

Biocultural diversity graphic on page 215 quote paragraph p 214: Correlations have been identified between the respective geographic distributions of cultural and biological globally and regionally (Harmon 2002, Oviedo and others 2000, Stepp and others 2004, Stepp and others 2005). Figure 5.8 highlights this, showing the worldwide distributions of plant diversity and linguistic diversity. Areas of high biodiversity tend to be areas of a higher concentration of distinct cultures. Meso-America, the Andes, Western Africa, the Himalayas, and South Asia and the Pacific, in particular, present this pattern of high “biocultural” diversity. This pattern is supported by research that combines indicators of cultural diversity with indicators of biodiversity into a global biocultural diversity index (Loh & Harmon 2005). emil.igrec (talk) 01:52, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Clara Business

Yo, so it's pretty rough and stuff, but check it out bro. Much facts to be had:

Language Diversity and its Decline

Cultural traditions are passed down through language, making language an important factor in the existence of biocultural diversity. There has been a decline of languages globally. The index of language diversity recorded this decline between 1970 and 2005. Over this thirty years, the number of languages spoken globally has decreased by 20%. This decline has been especially felt on indigenous languages, with a 60% decline in the America, 30% in the Pacific, and 20% in Africa. Currently, there are 7,000 languages being spoken in the world. Half the population speaks only 25 of these languages, the top 5 in order being Mandarin, Spanish, English, Hindi, and Bengali. The remaining 6975 languages are divided between the other half of the population, making the number of people who speak each language unequal and skewed. Thecfed (talk) 20:06, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

hah indeed. the book I'm reading says there are only 6000+ languages and they predict a 90% loss by the end of this century.I think your heading there could be simplified to just "Linguistic diversity". There is actually a section of the language page that deals with these details, so maybe we should just present what is especuially pertinent to our article.

What is "the index of language diversity" and should it be capitalized? emil.igrec (talk) 20:13, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Welcome

Hi Emaregretable! Welcome to Wikipedia. I'm helping out as one of the online ambassadors for the course this semester, so I wanted to quickly introduce myself, and let you know that if you have any questions feel free to send them my way. :) I'm looking forward to this course, because you are working on some topics I would really like to see developed, and I hope I can assist. - Bilby (talk) 14:59, 23 October 2012 (UTC)