Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Should minority languages be saved from extinction?
I think that minority languages should be saved from extinction because they are a part of a culture and a history of that culture. I think that is the most important reason as to why we should save minority languages from extinction because then parents can pass it down to their kids and they can pass it to theirs. People should understand that a language is part of a culture and it helps communicate with people and bring people together, and so even if there is language not commonly spoken it deserves to be preserved and used like all other languages. History tells us what has happened in our past, and minority languages are apart of that history showing us the beginning of how languages have evolved in time and I think that is an important thing to know.
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I agree with Melanie that minority languages should be preserved because they are an important part of culture. What would Spain's culture be without Spanish? Music would change, the way people interact with eachother would change, books, and records would all be lost. Spanish is not a minority language but if a culture had found records and books from a long time ago in a language they once spoke but no longer do, even if those records and books had extreme importance no one would know.
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