Issue13 第一次写，好纠结

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Issue13 ""Many of the world's lesser-known languages are being lost as fewer and fewer people speak them. The government of countries in which these languages are spoken should act to prevent such languages from becoming extinct."

Language plays an essential role in people's daily life. It can be regarded as a symbol of a culture. By exchanging languages, people are also exchanging their thoughts, customs and culture. And thus leading to the development of the whole society. However, as the speaker states, many of the world's lesser-known languages are becoming extinct. This is a tragedy for global development, especially for its culture. As far as I can see, the governments should take actions to prevent the lesser-known languages or even some dialects from fading away.

With millions of years evolution of the earth, from barren to flourishing and invigorating, the world has also developed into a highly advanced aggregation of trillions of people dispersing in different countries. The main factor that contributes to the thrive and prosperity of the wold is the cultural and intellectual communication between humans, and language in the process is an essential tool. Language, seen from its definition, is a systematic means of communicating ideas or feelings by the use of conventionalized signs, sounds, gestures, or marks having understood meanings. So by using language, people from different cultural backgrounds could exchange their opinions of different religion and custom.

The process that how a language developes is flexural. The ancestors from different countries or tribes had to ponder, grope and summarize the ways to express themselves. From generation to generation, people have been making efforts to improve the languages they use. So each kind of language can be regard as a great treasure and even of a culture. As culture study has been a hot issue throughout the world, languages should also be attached importance to, because they will do a great help in study and research. For instance, the Eskimos are famous for their abundant and various ways to describe snow. When climatologists do research on Eskimos' expressions of snow, they can have a better understanding of nature and thus make benefit to all the human being.

Referring to the claim of the speaker, I also agree that some lesser-known languages are becoming extinct because the number of the people who speak them are reducing. In my view, there are several factors that lead to the circumstance. Firstly, under the trend of globalization(这句写的好恶心）, people of those once-colonial countries or regions are forced, or voluntary, to give up their own languages and divert to learn those dominant languages(大语种不会说啊），such as French, English, Spanish and so on. Gradually, their own cultural specialities fade and culture of those dominant countries filtrate into their mind. With the lapse of time, they forget their primitive languages and dialects; their tongues will twister when pronouncing the old phonics. Secondly, the number of people from some special areas where they speak their own languages is reducing. This can attribute to their unique regulations. For hundreds of years, they have been keeping the custom of finding spouse within its tribe. They never receive new technology and information, so the mortality rate is increasing year by year. And not to mention people of areas like the New Ginea tribe, where homoerotism is worshipped. Thirdly, some languages are too abstruse to understand, such as Sankrit(梵语）, Tibet（藏语）, and Hebrew(希伯来语）. People have difficulties to read and write them. These languages are not proper for widespread communication. So less and less people speak them now.

As for me, no matter how difficult a language is, it is a treasure of human history, so government or authority in which the lesser-known languages are spoken should take actions to stop them from extinction. There are several method that they can apply. First, they should instruct their people to continue using their own languages or dialects. Like authorities in Welsh, although they belong to British government where English is the official language, they still keep Welsh as their mother tongue. Even at school, Welsh takes the priority over English. Only people in these countries use their languages themselves can their culture maintain. Meanwhile, government should also provide financial support for the development and study of its language, for example, establishing language learning schools, publishing books, newspapers and magazines, using media method like TV, radio and internet to publicize its languages and call on people's attention to use them.

To conclude, every language have a great symbolic weight in its culture. And every culture is an important element of the world, so governments and authorities should take action to protect its languages or dialects for the aim to keep the fruits of human intelligence, to remain its unique culture, as well as to provide precious materials for their descendants.