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本帖最后由 seiranzcc1 于 2009-6-7 19:46 编辑
Globalization has significantly promoted the international communication. As a consequence, the disadvantaged culture are confronting with the sever impact from those dominant culture. More and more people who have ever used lesser-known languages, especially the young, choose to speak the more general language in order to get a better chance of education, jobs and other social communication. To some extent, the threat of extinction that those lesser-known languages are confronting with is a corollary brought by social progress. It has been said that the governments of those countries in which some languages are being lost should act to prevent them from becoming extinct. Yet there are so many languages and their respective conditions are so differential that whether and how should the government protect them is far beyond being as simple as "to do or not to do".
For those languages which are too rare and uncommon, the government's protection to them won't make a big difference. Because of the extremely tiny number of the language users,
the invest to maintain the language is just like the respirator which makes artificial breath of a dying person. Even the life of the language is elongated, the real value behind it has become very little. For instance, there are several types of vernacular in Nepal which have only very few users still alive. What those linguists can do is just recording some sentences or balladry, which actually do not contribute anything to the so-called culture preservation.
As a matter of fact, people taking up 3% of the whole population are using more than 96% languages in the world. As disadvantaged side in the globalization, many lesser-known languages are being lost under the impact of other dominant culture and languages. Yet fortunately, many of those languages can still be saved, or even become thriving again with the aid from governments. For these languages, the governments should act to prevent them from becoming extinct.
On one hand, languages, as the carrier of a nation's culture, is critically important for the preservation of culture. Therefore, those lesser-known languages, which take up a big proportion of the total number of the world's languages, are concerned with keeping human being's cultural diversity. To ensure the social development of both technology and culture, the government should take measures to care about the less popular languages and aid them so that they can survive and advance in this industrialized era. For instance, Norwegian government has been appropriated a fund of nearly 30 million euro a year to help one local vernacular make TV programs and establish bilanguage educating system in order to preserve this unique culture in Norway.
On the other hand, to prevent those lesser-known languages won't cost too much public resources. On the contrary, the promotion of some specific national culture might attract foreign scholars and tourists, which will be of great help to spread the culture and drive the economic. In western China, for instance, the languages and cultures of the minority nations there have brought a lot of tourists to visit every year. The income of tourism has been an import financial source for the local government. At the same time, those cultures have arouse great attention and get better preservation. This kind of benign cycle no doubt frees their languages from the threat of extinction.
No one would like to live in a country where all the people are speaking the same languages and having the same customs. The deficit of comparison and reference from the various cultures will make the human's civilization simple and meaningless. In sum, government should act to prevent some lesser-known languages from becoming extinct. And this is not just about preserving the languages themselves, but the whole culture the language conveys.
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Globalization has significantly promoted the international communication. As a consequence, the disadvantaged culture are confronting with the sever impact from those dominant culture. More and more people who have ever used lesser-known languages, especially the young, choose to speak the more general language in order to get a better chance of education, jobs and other social communication. To some extent, the threat of extinction that those lesser-known languages are confronting with is a corollary brought by social progress. It has been said that the governments of those countries in which some languages are being lost should act to prevent them from becoming extinct. Yet there are so many languages and their respective conditions are so differential that whether and how should the government protect them is far beyond being as simple as "to do or not to do".
For those languages which are too rare and uncommon, the government's protection to them won't make a big difference. Because of the extremely tiny number of the language users, the invest to maintain the language is just like the respirator which makes artificial breath of a dying person. Even the life of the language is elongated, the real value behind it has become very little. For instance, there are several types of vernacular in Nepal which have only very few users still alive, and the new generation is not willing to speak them any more. What those linguists can do is just recording some sentences or balladry, which actually do not contribute anything to the so-called culture preservation. Even the government sacrifices a lot to save these languages, what those linguistics can do is just recording some sentences and balladry. Although they do contribute to the preservation of the so-called cultural diversity, compared with the cost, the government’s devotion might be not that meaningful.
As a matter of fact, people taking up 3% of the whole population are using more than 96% languages in the world, and that is, the small languages take up a big proportion of the total number of human being’s language types. Yet due to the comparatively less--—for some of them, sparse—users, those languages are disadvantaged side in the globalization, and many lesser-known languages are being lost under the impact of other dominant culture and languages. But fortunately, many of them can still be saved, or even become thriving again with the aid from governments. For these languages, the governments should act to prevent them from becoming extinct.
On one hand, language, as the carrier of a nation's culture, is critically important for the preservation of culture as is known to everyone, is critically important for the preservation of a nation’s culture. Therefore, those lesser-known languages, which make up a big part of the total number of the world's languages, are concerned with keeping human being's cultural diversity. For modern society, the development is not simply about the technology. How to preserve our culture is equally important. Thus the government should take measures to care about the less popular languages and aid them so that they can survive and advance in this industrialized era. For instance, Norwegian government has been appropriating a fund of nearly 30 million euro a year to help one local vernacular make TV programs and establish bilanguage educating system in order to preserve this unique culture in Norway. And this significantly helps the language spread and continue.
On the other hand, to prevent those lesser-known languages may cost a lot, but the government and people will get more from the preservation. The promotion of some specific national culture might attract foreign scholars and tourists, which will be of great help to spread the culture and drive the economic. In western China, for instance, the languages and cultures of the minority nations there have brought a lot of tourists to visit every year. The income of tourism has been an important financial source for the local government. At the same time, those cultures have arouse great attention and get better preservation. This kind of benign cycle no doubt frees their languages from the threat of extinction. Moreover, the existence of the lesser-known languages will ensure human being’s cultural diversity, which is great treasure for our descendants. Few will dispute that this kind of invest is meaningless.
No one would like to live in a country where all the people are speaking the same languages and having the same customs. The deficit of comparison and reference from the various cultures will make the human's civilization simple and meaningless. In sum, government should act to prevent some lesser-known languages from becoming extinct. And this is not just about preserving the languages themselves, but the whole culture the language conveys |
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