PRESERVING LANGUAGE
As the United Nation Month declared their theme, about raising awareness on indigenous language all over the world.
Language is a doorway to culture, philosophy and knowledge. If a language dies all these die with it.
In my opinion, saving a language is only a symptomatic treatment of the problem of globalization. The problem people have while trying to conserve a language is that they try to maintain it in an archaic form. But language changes just like a flowing river. So in order to preserve a language, we should allow it to change and accept the changes instead of trying to preserve a very old and sometimes useless form of it.
However, it is important that people, especially the youth celebrate, learn, and adapt the culture of their ancestors. If they do that, the language will be preserved too, although adapted to the modern times.
When a language dies, the knowledge of and ability to understand the culture who spoke it is threatened because the teachings, customs, oral traditions and other inherited knowledge are no longer transmitted among native speakers. As each language dies, science in linguistics, anthropology, prehistory and psychology lose some diversity in data sources.
There are different ideas about the best ways to preserve a language. One way is to encourage younger generations to speak the language as they grow, so they will then teach their children the language as well. In many cases, this option is nearly impossible. There are often many factors that endanger a language, and it is impossible to control each of these factors to ensure its survival.
Source:https://www.google.com/search?q=preserving+language
In my opinion, saving a language is only a symptomatic treatment of the problem of globalization. The problem people have while trying to conserve a language is that they try to maintain it in an archaic form. But language changes just like a flowing river. So in order to preserve a language, we should allow it to change and accept the changes instead of trying to preserve a very old and sometimes useless form of it.
However, it is important that people, especially the youth celebrate, learn, and adapt the culture of their ancestors. If they do that, the language will be preserved too, although adapted to the modern times.
When a language dies, the knowledge of and ability to understand the culture who spoke it is threatened because the teachings, customs, oral traditions and other inherited knowledge are no longer transmitted among native speakers. As each language dies, science in linguistics, anthropology, prehistory and psychology lose some diversity in data sources.
There are different ideas about the best ways to preserve a language. One way is to encourage younger generations to speak the language as they grow, so they will then teach their children the language as well. In many cases, this option is nearly impossible. There are often many factors that endanger a language, and it is impossible to control each of these factors to ensure its survival.
Source:https://www.google.com/search?q=preserving+language
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