13. Many of the world’s lesser-known languages are being lost as fewer and fewer people speak them. The governments of countries in which these languages are spoken should act to prevent such languages from becoming extinct.
According to the speaker, many of the world’s languages are disappearing for the reason that fewer and fewer people in the world now speak them. Also the author suggests that government with the endangered languages should take some actions in order that the extinction be prevented. In my point of view, I totally agree with what the speaker asserts. In the following are some reasons which can fullu substantiate it.
The development of science and technology is to some degree the cause of the extinction of languages which is less known to the majority of people in the world. With the advent of such new devices as television, vedio etc., people in the rural or isolated parts of the world are provided with the chance to learn the world outside. Yet the prerequisite for they to understand the outside world is that they must understand the language which is used to describe it, therefore incurred the situation that more and more people in the rural areas are starting to learn the internationally used language like English and so on, and thus indirectly caused the extinction of local languages.
Another factor contributing to the loss of the languages is the development eagerly seeked by the undeveloped countries and the third-world countries. The third-world countries, in order to improve the countries’s economical power and political status among the world, must cooperate with the developed world while language, just as what I mentioned in the above paragraph, is the chief obstacle that they must overwhelm. In addition, with the prosperity of the worldwide business, it is essential for the appearance of the internationally used language. As time goes on, the more people speak the universal language, the more languages become extinct.
In view of the more and more endangered languages, the nations with those languages should take some effective steps to prevent the extinction. Simply put, as we all know that language, like other unrenewable resources, is the rare cultural heritage generated by our great ancestors. The history of language is in fact the history of our human being in that it is the appearance of language that made it possible the appearance of human. Besides, the protection of the language is virtually the protection of our culture and tradition as most cultures are embodied in the form of language. One apt illustration of this point involves the songs of minorities in China, many of which are becoming more and more endangered with the extinction of languages.
In the final analysis, we human being, as the most gifted animals in the earth, should take some efective measures, if possible, to slow down the extinction of languages spoken by fewer and fewer people. After all, it is language which records the history of our human being and which made our comfortable living in the world possible.
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