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发表于 2010-2-13 13:59:47 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

The tower of Babel dedicating to worship the glory of man instead of god, is the root reason that god proffer us diverse language, give us a colorful culture in the world. For the purpose, i side with the proposal to protect our diversity in language. However, the reason that intrigues the lesser-known language facing death consists of three points, which i will illustrate in the following passage, by contrast, not only from the plausible reason fewer people speak it, and then on the basis of its complexity and hard-handling, government should take more responsibility to avoiding this tragedy, at the mean time, endeavor from us--people who speak it also should be exerted on.

Let us start with our first point. we should introspect our own language, have she been in pace with our era, in thousands of years, can you imagine without any change language can still accompany with our need? As technology and science people have acquainted accumulated bit by bit, our language also show her limitation in this, without evolution, they ultimately are out of mode. The same as we do in fashion, people won't still stick to the style several decades ago. We also can figure it out by perceiving the evolution axiom. Just as one famous philosophy Heraclitus said(and i paraphrase): One those stepping into rivers the same, other and other rivers flow." What the language are forced to do is just following the step our world strides.

Meanwhile, the law of nature, i think, yet, still apply in the field what we concentrate now, which means, aggressive culture invades. Without little help form other aspects of the nation, languages are also can effected by the massive destruction of invasion, through forcing violence permeating into education, ordinary communication and so forth. Take American native language for example, it were replaced by English, French, Portuguese, or Spanish as a result of colonization. The Coptic language, replaced by Arabic in its native Egypt, was once thought to be extinct.

As economic and culture globalization and development continue to push forward, growing numbers of languages will become endangered and eventually, extinct. With increasing economic integration on national and regional scales, people find it easier to communicate and conduct business in the dominant languages of world commerce: English, Chinese, Spanish. Whereas, the lesser-known languages do not have this advantage, which is also the fatal weakness we have to confront. In the business field, in order to expand its own market percent, our entrepreneurs have to grasp the most common languages in used, and in the science field, to let his own discovery to be shared in a broad world, we have to rewrite it in English which also is most popular one. Including in some international meetings such as UN, what we are mostly familiar with, the official language mainly contained the most populars which is more easily accepted by most of people in the world.

Why should government should try its best to prevent this happen? The answer is obvious: the complexity and complication of the issue is far beyond we can imagine. Language can not be spoken spontaneously, especially in condition those are not popular nowadays. People tend to evade difficulties and chase for easiness. Secondly, language evolving needs to be under the cover of team work--in others words, organized by government in the analysis of its scale and scope. As I mentioned before, our action should utilize both from horizontal and vertical. From the analysis we hold in hand, it is urgent to initiate operation now, which estimates of future languages loss range from half of more than 6,000 currently spoken languages being lost in the next 200 years, to 90 % by the year 2050. Eventually, we not only need the assistance from the authority but also from ourselves, we need self-contained, then according to that, although fearsome are the difficulties, so our strength.

In conclusion of what we argued, although the reasons attributed to the extinct of lesser-known languages are multiple, but it is all about use, without it, any language will lost vigrousness. Case by case, we can set up different manners to different cause-effect relationship between language. And at last, with the effort and strength lied in our government and ourselves, i think we will avoid this happen eventually.