Endangered Languages Should Be Saved
Endangered languages and languages alike all hold specific information and traditions that differentiate them from one another. Endangered languages are filled with centuries of human thinking and historical knowledge, cultural gains and traditions that provide people with a sense of identity, and they help assemble diversity in this world that brings mankind vital information to grow. Endangered languages should be saved because just like any language, they hold a vast amount of information that gives outsiders a deeper look at who these people are, what they believe in, and what they think and know about the world around them.
Language is the deliverer of human thoughts and insight through the process
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Although this may be an easy exit to avoid the issue, endangered languages are much more than they seem on the surface. At a linguist’s perspective, endangered languages must be saved because they are vital for future understandings of human interaction and thought. Given the average person doesn’t acquire the same amount of information on language as a linguist does, then the average person should be informed that endangered languages must be saved. Endangered languages are storage houses of knowledge providing a plethora of insight on the world and ways to perceive different things. Languages carry so much more than just words to communicate with as they diversify our world and offer different views to think in. Language is what makes us who we are and enhances the human mind to think differently and conceptually from …show more content…
In the view of typology, the comparison of different languages, linguists can compare and contrast languages and in turn understand people better and how communication differs around the globe. “Sure, losing an individual language doesn’t destroy everything, but each language that’s lost is one less (incredibly rich) data point which can be used to better understand how people do language, and what other ways things can be done in language. In addition, individual languages have plenty to teach us as well” (Styler). Language enables new thoughts to be brought up and as stated before from the Whorf hypothesis language shapes the way we perceive the world around us. People think differently around the world because of the way their single language allows them to think according to their environment. In the consideration of endangered languages going extinct, the diversity in ideas and conceptual views would be erased as well due to the lack of language diversity. In a bigger perspective, focusing on what the Whorf hypothesis helps to understand how diverse our world is with the way each every individual perceives the world. If endangered languages went extinct, then our world would gradually become boring and lack dissimilar ideas. In order to maintain our diverse world, endangered languages must be saved because as one
For this summary I watched a video called Voices of the World: The Extinction of Language and Linguistic Diversity. The video starts off with how people believe that there are about 6, 000 languages. David Crystal talks about how with all these different languages half of them are endangered of becoming extinct. Each different language offers a different point of view of the world and culture. He said that if different languages are lost then “we lose the meaning what is it to be human.”
Language is the capability animals and humans posses as a complex system of communication. The number of language across the world vary from a specific number but we can all agree that language is an important tool for all of us. It is one of the most amazing things that we can acquire. Therefore, learning another language can only enhance and benefit a person for a long time .Learning another language in itself is a valuable asset of life.
The Contemporary Issues in Native American Culture provides a lot of varied topics and interests. In this paper, the main issue will be the topic of tribal language preservation. How tribes are able to raise money to enhance language efforts, how tribes are working to preserve the language, and how tribes are using language to maintain cultural awareness and identity will be discussed.
As anthropologists seek to understand the culture that they are studying they must overcome the language barrier. Similar to the concept of culture, “people use language to encode their experiences, to structure their understanding of the world and themselves, and engage with on...
If one walks through one of the large cities’ streets in our country. They will hear and experience a variety of languages. Our history and tradition of being a land of immigrants is reflected in the languages we speak. This means that the USA is home to a vast number of languages, one would be hard pressed to find a language that is not spoken in the U.S. The official list as the number of languages spoken in the United States go as high as 322. The most spoken and prominent languages in the country being English, Spanish, and French. English has the highest number of speakers with 215 million. Spanish is the second most spoken language with 28 million speaker. The French language is the third most spoken language with a million and a half speakers in the U.S (Many Languages).
Evaluating an article is a good way to understand what an author wants to do and tell the readers. In his article, “Let Them Die”, Kenan Malik mentions two types of language, common languages such as English and Spanish, and dying language such as Native American language, Catawba. (Kenan Malik 85) Those dying languages are lost in every two weeks. (Masci 942) His main argument is that language death should be acknowledged rather than trying to keep it. His ideas that include the main argument which common language is better than dying language are explained by using many examples such as linguist’s quote and references. Based on some ideas and examples, he tries to tell readers that common language has more advantages than dying language.
Did you know there is an International Mother Language Day? Language shapes our life through technology and culture. We have 7,000 different languages and atgb the rate we are losing them we could soon have less than 1,000 languages left. In “ A Day to Honor the Bond Between Humans and Language”, the author builds an argument that the bond between humanity and language as a human right should be celebrated. Mary Linn uses some languages are becoming extinct, multilingualism should be recognised ,and language is what makes us human to strengthen the logic and persuasiveness of her argument.
Throughout time the flexibility of different languages within the world today are always being tossed up in the air, if there’s disadvantages or advantages to being capable of more than one language. Although all individuals have there own opinions on being able to speak fluently with different languages, there isn’t any other way to see it besides it being a huge advantage; fully appreciating the beneficial chance to be bilingual or trilingual and sometimes even more. Communicating with more than a single voice will represent who one is and where they came from. Within two articles “Speaking in Tongues” written by Zadie Smith and “How to tame a Wild Tongue” by Gloria Anzalduas’s both demonstrate the different languages they encounter. Smith looses her chance in speaking from her voice being forced upon to change without resistance while Anzalduas’s aggressively puts up a battle to be able to keep her voice. The acceptance of varies languages isn’t in everyone category, however in time we should be more accepting and realize from articles like such that’s beneficial to learn and accept the difference languages of different cultures within the world today. Although there may be struggles upon learning the knowledge to something new, its nothing but an advantage to have with one throughout a lifetime!
One outstanding challenge that the Canadian policy presents is the subjective concern towards language as both a marginal and intrinsic loss to the minority populace. The challenge is not the coexistence and complexity of multiple lang...
American Indian languages is a vital importance to preserving the American Indian culture. Language is much more than communication. When we talk about it on the surface, that’s what it is. But language is the way we think. And it’s the way it’s been handed down through generations. And if you lose the way your family has been speaking, you lose who you are. If languages dies, some consequences that will occur in the family level will be the loss of inherited knowledge which includes, traditional and contemporary cultural expressions, values, cultural heritage, rituals, legends, folk tales and many more. Language and culture go hand in hand together. So if language dies, culture will go with, as well as something personal. A degree of one’s
Losing variation of tongues, vocabulary and grammatical systems decreases multilingualism because people are less forced to speak another vernacular. In other words, we lose unique sounds and words developed by humans after years of evolution, when languages extinguish. If they keep disappearing, humans will be forced to speak the same vernacular and the advantages of learning another dialect will get lost. Some experiments have proved that learning another language increases speakers’ communication skills. The internal parietal cortex area of the brain becomes denser when the speaker increases its capability to process information in various languages. Another point is that by learning another vernacular, it's expected for the speaker to gain a different interpretation of life. According to the New York Time Article Why Save a Language? “Yeli Dnye… has 11 different ways to say “on” depending on whether something is horizontal, vertical, on a point, scattered, attached and more…” (McWhortery, 2014, 2). Yeli speakers can relate the same word in 11 different ways because they have a broader vocabulary. Every language gives a unique pathway of thought to its speaker and has exceptional attributes. If a language vanishes before the world sees it or records it, then a small piece of humanity’s heritage
All human beings in this world are familiar with atleast one language and other might even speak more than one language. Language Is a way of expressing ourselves to others around us. Language doesnot only constitute speaking, but engulfs all major aspects such as body language, gestures, written language and also behaviours. Usually people who speak only one language also know more than one Dialect. Certainly no one talks exactly the same way at all times. Different people speak and act differently in different situations. Language tends to change at all times. There are several changes and variations in language. First, there is the Vocabulary Change. New words are added every now and then. Other than that, slang terms, in particular, come
The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis illustrates the stucture of one language strongly affect the world-view of its speakers. Wardhaugh first quotes the explaination from Sapir and Whorf to demonstrates a clear outline of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis.Sapir believes language and culture is “inextricably related” (Wardhaugh, 2009). He states how people usually use language largely constructs reality. Whorf extends Sapir’s idea and claims that the relationship between language and culture is “a deterministic one” (Wardhaugh, 2009). He interpres that the linguistic system of one language develops a certain thinking pattern, which could influence the world-view of that group (Wardhaugh, 2009). Wardhaugh then analyzes the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis with different perspectives. In his analysis, society and language form a mutual relation of reflection and construction. To support the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, Wardhaugh expresses his opinions mainly in two aspects. First, speakers of their first language are more senstive to their culture and more easier to perceive the slight distinctions in their language. Second, the linguistice system helps as well as limits the understandings of the culture of their language. In this manner, a problem of lost in translation, which means a ...
This study is significant because it brings to schools and teachers, the attention needed for the urgency of this matter and gives them the ability to reflect on heritage language maintenance. In such, it calls for th...
Even though there are advantages as well as disadvantages, the need for international language for communication, politics, economics and security is necessary and English is the best “language candidate” for that function. English is a language spread all over the world and it is used by millions and millions of speakers. According to my opinion, people should use English as a tool to communicate with all cultures but every country must keep their culture and language is a great part of it. In conclusion, language defines identity of a country and everyone should keep their language and explore others.