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dreamflyerUID: 21967

"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."

For thousands of years, before instant communication and engine-viechles are invented, the nexus among people are vulnerable and unstable. People living beside the two sides of a large mountain would never meet and talk for generations. That's why so many different languages, perhaps only spoken by less than a thousand people, would exist. Today, with the frequency of communications between such people and the outer world, these languages are in the danger of extinction. I agree that we should endeavor to prevent such languages, however, may not only depend on government.

Every language is such a treasure that reflects humans' intellectral talent, and will somewhat contribute to the study of antropology.  What differs humans and the other animals? What makes the experiences and knowledge of individuals could pass down to others? No doubt, the answer is language. We have evidences to believe that kinds of languages have lamently extincted. Almost every discovery of a(考古) companies complications of discoveries of volumes written by unaware writing. Luckily, although disparity exists, many languages have some common nature, thus from studying modern language, experts could make assumptions of the volume and try to find evidences from other meterials. At this point, the language in danger will help a lot: Because languages are evolving all the time, but the language used in a relatively insolar place would change much more slowly, so they are the best references for people to study history and antique languages. What's more, almost every unique language comes with a unique ethic, which has mumerous unique costoms. Preventing language will surely beneficial to preventing the ethic.

Concerning the spersely location and terrific traffic situations of those who speak such languages, a lot of economic and metieral sponses are needed to achieve the goal. However, as I mentioned above, this may not the only responsibility and may not the most appropriate way to depending on government. Firstly, as more and more people are pay more attention to extincting animals, it also appeals more and more attention of people to protect extincting language of human beings. Southern Weekly, a largely published newspaper in China, has reported such a language in mountains of Yunnan province in China. This behavior is a sign that people, especially those with higher intellegence, begin to care the language in danger. Once people could build some funds to support the protecting activity as we do on the issues of animals in danger, government could released from the burdens besides more pressing problems such as constructions of roads and railroads toward such ingenous areas. Secondly, if government becomes the sponsor of preventing, we are facing the problem of decision-making process. We can't role out the possibilities that administrators who hold such powers know little about the languages, and what's worse, they may intent to fund the districts where they are from. Thus, as we could gather funds from ways other than goverment, we had better depend on ourselves.

In sum, I agree that humans should take measures to prevent the treasure of our own from extincting. What needs attention is the host of such activities. And I still wish to remind that: When people enter the tribes or villeges living by those language speaker, they should try not to influence and destroy the customs of their own, which are as significance as language itself.