Prominent Languages are Affecting Minority Groups.

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Economics and the media are changing the face of culture and languages. “As "globalization" increases, so does the loss of human languages. People find it easier to conduct business and communicate with those outside their own culture if they speak more widely used languages like Chinese, Hindi, English, Spanish or Russian.”(National Science Foundation) Commerce and culture has impacted speakers of minority languages and encouraged them to learn the most prominent dialect to avoid future consequences such as limited access to information. In East and South Asia they are currently experiencing a significant loss of minority languages and will eventually transform cultures.

Learning Mandarin has become the ultimate objective in South and East Asia. However, it is affecting the smaller language groups in the country. Mandarin has become the main dialect for government officials, educational institutions and the general public. Studies also show that Han Chinese account for more than 90 percent of the population in china and Mandarin is their main language. “Therefore, the spread of Mandarin leaves many languages of smaller groups, such as the traditionally shamanistic Hezhe, Oroqen and Ewenki people who live in China's far northeast, marginalized and under threat”(http://www.china.org.cn). According to the United Nations, there are 56 Chinese ethnic groups and more than 100 dialects in danger of diminishing due to modernization. Chinese Government officials have been trying to protect minority languages; nonetheless, the most prominent languages have been broadening through the media.

The Chinese main language (Mandarin) is part of the Sino-Tibetan family as well as Tibetan, Karen, and Lolo-Burmese, which are dialects spoken ...

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