issue13 [REBORN FROM THE ASHES] TASK ONE by ieyangj08

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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.

提纲：
1、丢失了一种语言我们将会丢失一种文明，语言是文明的载体
2、文明的多样性对人类的发展至关重要
3、丢失一种语言我们将会丢失一种思维方式
4、政府应该保护濒危语言的使用者和该语言相关的记录
5、政府应该帮助小语种群体建立其自己的传媒语言


It is a trend that hundreds of lesser-known languages are dying every year. Shall the governments of those countries do something to change this trend? The answer is absolutely yes.

In order to demonstrate the above point of view, I will ask a question first. If a language is lost, what loss will be brought to us human?

We shall lose a civilization, for language is the carrier of civilization. Not only our numerous precious poetry, novels, and proverbs will be lost forever, but the infinite wisdom of the language speaker's ancestors will also die. Starting from the primitive society, people use language to record their experience against the natural, the main events, and the knowledge accumulated in the labor, all of which composed their civilization and are valuable wealth for us. Unfortunately, this civilization would disappear totally, with the loss of the language.

However, the diversity of civilizations is an essential factor for our mankind's development. The history of human progress is also a history of mutual learning among civilizations. There are full of these examples. Greece learned from Egypt, Rome studied Greece, the Arab referred to the Roman Empire, medieval Europe imitated the Arab, and Renaissance Europe followed the Byzantine Empire. It is this diversity of civilizations that brings comparison, learning, and progress for countries, as well as induces inspiration and creativity of people, which finally lead to great innovations.

With the loss of a language, we shall also lose a mode of thinking. Scientists have given enough evidences to prove that a language represents a mode of thinking. When people using a language to speak or write, they need to compose words in one way. Actually, this way of composing words is a kind of thinking mode. And this thinking mode has formed in the language speaker gradually, as he or she using this language. Every time when doing the IQ test questions, we might have a strong feeling that it is how useful to use another thinking way. Yes, a new kind of thinking pattern is essential for us, especially when we meeting some real difficulties.
Whereas, the death of a language shall brings the tomb of a thinking mode.

Since a language means so much to our human, what might the governments of the relevant countries do to protect these lesser-known languages?

We know that a language extinct means the enormous reduce of speakers and relevant records. Some endangered small languages even only are known by the older grandfathers and grandmothers, and the young of the society have little chance to study them. Thus the government is to educate the young to learn and use them. Correlative records, such as books, tapes, videos and so on, are also essential components of these languages. Governments would probably allocate sufficient funds to retain them well.

Media language is a big threat to small languages, for our daily language is mainly received from the media, such as Internet, newspapers, magazines, television, radio and so on. Therefore, to protect these endangered small languages, governments shall help the speakers to build their websites, publishing houses, television stations, and radio stations. If the lesser-known languages become a media language among a group of people, then their life would be extended period of time.

Protect the endangered small languages is an essential and urgent matter, which should be taken seriously by the relevant governments.

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