Language group identity

International Mother language Day is an ideal opportunity to highlight the importance of languages to group and individual identity, as the foundation for all social, economic and cultural life.

国际母语日是我们强调作为社会、经济与文化生活之基础的语言对于群体与个人的认同感所具有的重要意义的良好时机。

Only the most northerly group has retained their language and ethnic identity into the 20th century.

只有最北部的群落将他们的语言和种族身份保留到了20世纪。

"The findings suggest that (the preference) has nothing to do with information, the semantics of language, but rather with group identity," she said.

“这些发现表明偏爱与信息、语义无关，而与社会认同有关，”她说。