ISSUE13 [REBORN FROM THE ASHES] TASK ONE by dingyi0311

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ISSUE13

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.

As the processing of the world globlization, the whole world are becoming more and more uniformed. One of the result is that some of the lesser-known languages are being losted forever. these less-known languages are are certain carrier with a specific culture and precious experience. Therefore, the governments where these languages are spoken should strive to protect them.
It was once estimated that every day a certain kind of language are extinct from this world, the most probably reason should attribute to the globalization. Many of the minorities who live in the isolated area generally can keep their language well for hundreds of years. Yet,the modern technology now make people reach to the every coner of the earth. People outside bring them the morden technology to show their good gesture and the outside world then was open up to these isolated people. As the consequence, these minorities are then attracted to living in the big city and try to learn the other language to fit in the modern world that seem to be “surperior”. Generations has passed. the offsprings of these migrates then was not able to speak their ancerstor’s languages. After all, who will waste of the time to learn speaking a language that useless to their live in the society that every minunet account.
In facing these dispearing languages, some people hold the stance that the govenrment of the countries should not squander the tax of civils to save these lesser-known languages. Just as the Darwin’s theory goes: the unadopted should be replaced by the adopted species,It is nature that the lesser-known languages are replaced by the more popular language. However, when the less know language was disapeared, it is not because these language are not “adopted”; which means their language are bad and not convenient to use, it is just because less people are speaking them and they need to comply to the majority.
Moreover, as the language are dispeared, the culture will disapeared as well. The way people speaking the language contains the way people thinking. For example, the chinese sentence is in a structure that put the main idea in the ultimate part of a sentence, while the english usually put the main ideal at the top of the language. It reflect that the Asian culture that people are more conservasive and not willing to express the ideal directly, these was most prominence when chinese people criticize other people, they carefully chose the world and express their ideal in the words. Yet, the western people are more staightforward. Therefore, if the lesser-known languages are extinct, the culture and the way people thinking are then have gone forever.
Beside the cuture and thinking pattern, many of the precious experience and knowledge left by their ancestors disappears with the language as well. The American indians living in the forests in their language telling their people to burn the decidous foliage in the forest every two years. The burning will cause more or less damage to the trees. After the forests was enclosed and protected by the local government, the folks are removed and no one was alowed to burn the leaves in the forests. the governor thought these can better protect the forests.,but unfortuately, the forest begain to suffer from the plague of the insects since the second year. After careful investigation, people finally figure out that the burning of the foliages will do much good to the whole forest even some of the trees will be hurted: it will clean the ground and thus left no place for the living of the insect.and even may kill the eggs .
In sum, the extinction of any language are a great loss to our human beings,. The languages provide us sources for the historian to delve into the history of our human from the story or even the myth passed form the ancerstors. Many of the project created by the ancient people are still a secretes to us, some of them can hardly be done even with our modern technology, such as the pyramid and the Babylon’s hanging garden. The government should to protect the less-known languages form extinction.