# Language and belonging

A language carries songs, jokes, names for places and ways to address elders. People who lose their language often lose a way of belonging with it, and many communities now teach it to children again.

Connects to:
- [Languages at risk](https://mapideas.org/i/la_dying)
- [Migration and diaspora](https://mapideas.org/i/cu_diaspora)
- [What do we lose with a language?](https://mapideas.org/i/q_x_lose_lang)

Sources:
- [Wikipedia: Language and identity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_and_identity)

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