Beñat Garaio Mendizabal
As many of the world’s languages are dying out, and as many others are in a minority situation, many speakers and players have started a whole host of initiatives designed to change this situation. However, to make these initiatives effective, it is essential to analyse the situation in detail and to do this, scales used by different institutions to measure the vigour of languages have been created. Now that the players of the Basque language are keen to create their own indicator system, these international scales have been explained and examined from a critical perspective with respect to their good and bad sides. The aim is twofold: 1) to come up with a number of variables for this new indicator system, so that with the work carried out by everyone, our language can continue taking longer, stronger steps in this long, difficult process, and 2) to find out what these world scales are like.
Munduko hainbat hizkuntza hilzorian direnez, eta beste hainbeste egoera gutxituan daudenez, hainbat hiztun eta eragilek egoera hori iraultzeko hamaika ekimen jarri dituzte abian. Ekimen horiek eraginkorrak izan daitezen, ordea, egoeraren azterketa zehatza egitea behar-beharrezkoa da eta horretarako sortu dira hainbat erakundek erabiltzen dituzten hizkuntzen bizi-indarra neurtzeko eskalak. Euskararen eragileak adierazle sistema propioa sortu nahi duten honetan, nazioarteko eskala horiek azaldu eta era kritikoan aztertu dira, euren alde on eta txarrekin. Helburuak bi dira, 1) adierazle sistema berri honi hainbat aldagai proposatzea, denon artean egindako lanarekin gure hizkuntzak biziberritze prozesu luze eta malkartsu honetan pausu luze eta indartsuagoak ematen jarraitu dezan, eta 2) munduko eskala horiek nolakoak diren ezagutzea.