The Effects of Culture on the Evolution of Language

The world is always in constant changing. Living creatures had had to adapt to new environments and living conditions. Therefore, every species have faced a process of evolution. The human race was not excluded of such changes, and has suffered numerous transformations since the beginning of times. Moreover, this process of change affected humans not only physically, but also affected their communities, organizations, values and every other aspect of their cultures. One of the aspects of cultures that would inevitable change with the time is the language. Language can be understood as a group of symbols that contain meaning, and is used as a form of communication in the human´s communities. Each language has an enormous part of cultural content and is vital to the development of such. However, the bond between languages and cultures led languages to go through continuous changing; some even face extinction with the time. The English language is not saved from suffering this constant evolution; nevertheless, it has managed to become one of the most predominant languages in the world. To understand the strong influence of the English language is necessary to observe the changes that it has suffered through the years; also, is important to know the reasons that led to the disappearance of other languages, and to make an analysis of if it was whether the culture that changed the language or vice verse.

The Western culture is characterized to be one of the most technology-improved cultures. The development of new tools and systems has taken it ahead in many situations. For example, the first man that landed over the moon, the first computers, and several more. Those achievements had given also great importance to the western culture by...

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...hanges has become less frequent in the last centuries there are still happening in the present days. Mostly, over the last decades the evolution of the English language has been more technology oriented, which have given to the western society an advantage over other communities. Such facts may are the reasons of which the English have been able to survive while other languages have disappear. There exist several languages that still struggle to be preserved. However, the advance of the modern societies is accelerating, and the majority of them are becoming useless. Because the world is going to be always in continuous transformation and humanity with it, it is inevitable that languages suffer alterations. As a result, the changes in the language are going to condition certain factors of the individual’s function, which will create an eternal cicle of give and take.