Mark Turin

With the broadening of the English language, among others, a threat is posed to 90 percent of the 6000 living languages today, which are at risk of vanishing before the turn of the century. Foran talks about Geoffrey Hull and his conclusion that English is a killer language. Hull believes that the growth of English is a threat to many other languages. Many foreigners see this in an opposite light, these people view language as a tool that they can manipulate and bring them closer to other

In the essay “Last Words,” published on the first of October in 2006, the author Walter Michaels instills an idea of what to do when a language is loss. Throughout the essay, he gives examples of how languages are (and how they could be) lost. He also points out, that even though many of those reasons have been eliminated, that languages continue to go extinct. Thus, the author brings up the point, “Why would it be a tragedy if English disappeared?” Although people mourn the loss of a language, Michaels argues that speakers of the dying language should exert effort to learn the dominate one.

For those languages which have no written form, when the language dies off, so does the accumulated knowledge and history of the culture. Sadly, indigenous languages around the world are dying off at an alarming rate. It is estimated that nearly half of the languages spoken today are likely to die off within the next century if steps are not taken to preserve those which still exist.

The film “The Linguists” follows linguists Gregory Anderson and David Harrison on their journey to learn about and document endangered languages in Bolivia, India, Arizona, and Siberia. Through their quest, they are able to interact with some of the few remaining speakers of languages that are near death and they manage to make an impact on how these communities view their heritage language. Focusing on the moribund languages of Siberia and Arizona, it becomes evident that speakers of the heritage language feel a love for the language and the culture it represents, but went through periods of oppression and embarrassment for being speakers of a minority language that ultimately shaped their attitudes on the language.

According to the speculations of linguistic expert, John McWhorter, who wrote the article, “What the World Will Speak in 2115,” in one hundred years English will become the most widely understood language. If current trends continue, in the future one can imagine a world in which humans all share a single universal language. Having a common language would potentially open the doors to many opportunities for increased economic activity and cultural interaction. Additionally, as we travel into the 22nd Century, lesser used and more complex languages that are spoken today will become extinct. Subsequently, the few languages that survive will evolve into

“A dead language.” Beautiful languages “Like German and French” are extinct. All things that allow a person to feel fulfilled have been removed from the dystopian

One important thing I learned is that the world is expected to lose half of its languages in the next 100 years. This is particularly alarming because of the importance of biodiversity. The article refers to the fact that people speaking a certain language can hold certain knowledge that other people speaking a different

Ken Wiwa presents several ideas pertaining to language and culture within his essay, Get Beyond Babel. Wiwa explains that every language has a chance of dying out over time. For any language to survive through years of societal changes, it must be adapted so it can be used to embrace other cultures, new technology and new perspectives. Wiwa presents the concept that language is the same as culture. I do not agree with this concept because I believe that culture is carried by the people, not by the language.

The country of Nepal is home to approximately twenty seven million people, with ninety two different identified languages spread across the numerous ethnic groups. About eighty seven percent of the country’s population speak one of the five major languages: Nepali, Maithili, Bhojpuri, Tharu, and Tamang (Weinberg, 62). However, Nepali is spoken as a primary language by about half of the total population. Out of the ninety two identified languages, fifty nine each have less than ten thousand speakers (Bista, 2). The total population speaking these fifty nine languages is about point five percent, with the majority of these non-dominant languages in danger of becoming extinct because of the declining population of speakers (Ghimire, 1). Additionally, the language of Nepali is used in legal affairs, business transactions, mass media,

Over centuries we have seen the amount and complexity of languages all across the globe reduced. If this trend continues, we could see the number of world languages potentially reduced from 6,000 to 600 in the future. Colonization and urbanization has led to the abolishment of languages spoke by smaller and less dominant civilizations. McWhorter uses the Native Americans in North America and the Aboriginal

The number of Languages spoken throughout the world is estimated to be 6,000. Although a few languages are for wider communication around the world, these are very often spoken as second, third, fourth, or later-acquired languages. Fewer than 25% of the world 's approximately 200 countries recognize two or more official languages, with a mere handful recognizing more than two. Despite there being lots of bilinguals and multilinguals, there is also a bunch of monolingual people in the world. The adult population is allowing their children not to learn a foreign language, drastically underfunding language courses in middle to high school level classes. Because they think it 's not necessary in this century, thinking they don 't require communication with other people from other countries. But the truth is that it can actually benefit in more ways than people think. The United States school system has started to not require foreign language class for graduation requirements, this places the U.S at a disadvantage in the world scene.

A global language isn’t all sunshine and roses. Increased globalisation could lead to weakening or eradication of other language. It is estimated that copious minor languages will disappear in the future. However, it seems that countries with English as a native language is under greater threat of losing their language – or accent – to the dominating party: American

Throughout the history of the human race a multitude of different cultures have emerged all throughout the world. With these cultures has come the development of thousands of different languages, each encompassing unique characteristics, stories, ideals, and beliefs embodied by these cultures. As the world continues to be in constant change and growth, globalization has caused many of these languages to become extinct. Linguistic anthropologists are working hard to prevent this from happening any further and are also attempting to revive lost native languages, a very important process to these native cultures as well as all of humanity. Native language provides a sense of identity to the people of the culture from which it originates and also a linguistic diversity to our world. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis proves just how much language influences perception of the world and reflects the beliefs held by individuals associated with the language.

There are individuals who despise their own language for being minority. English language as a global lingua-franca may be hard hitting for such minority languages, leading to language shifting: a harbinger of dialect death. Linguists believe that diversity of English language may cause deleterious repercussions, such as extinction of minority languages. This will lead to cultural homogenization, and hence loss of tradition value systems and beliefs.

Dialect is the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way. The importance of languages to a culture is that when a language dies or disappears it removes the wealth of knowledge about history, culture, the natural environment and the human brain says Tom Colls from The Death of Languages. Languages are like the root of every culture. For a language to become nonexistence for a culture begins that culture to a hard rock. Also according to Mr. Colls Did you know about every fourteen days a language becomes extinction. So that brings me to an important question why do languages die? No one knows the real true answer, all we can go on is what we have heard and gather from other people. Languages can also be a human identity. Without identify you are unknown same thing goes for a language. If you don’t know one single language to speak, how will you communicate with others? So what happens when a language is loss will their identify leave with it. As indicated by” www.ethnologue.com “which is a website that gives important information on languages, Dialect danger is a genuine worry to which etymologists and dialect organizers have turned their consideration in the most recent a very long while. For an assortment of reasons, speakers of numerous littler, less prevailing dialects quit utilizing their legacy dialect and start utilizing another. It is trusted that 90% of the around 7,000 dialects