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A dead language, that-is, which ceased to be a spoken language. and survives only in written monuments or in artificial used, e.g., as lang. worship and sacred books, or, as lang. scientists essays, or as the official language. in its international relations.
Our planet's six thousand languages, some say hundreds of millions of people, on the other - several dozens of one tribe, but all of them are valuable for linguists. Diversity is the wealth that should make all possible to keep and treat it with as much care as and to the endangered animals and plants. And languages die. According to experts, from twenty to fifty percent languages doomed to extinction, children do not learn them and they will perish in the following century.
One of the reasons for this tragic situation - the rapid development of transport and telecommunications. To actively participate in the rapid processes of today, we have to learn languages, which are spoken by most. They are spoken by radio and TV, exit of the most interesting books, Newspapers and magazines, communicates science and much more. Small Nations with their tongues simply have to forget his speech and culture, and included in the global process. So were forgotten in the beginning of the century dozens of languages of American Indians.
This rapid death of a large number of languages will inevitably affect linguistics as a science, and not only in linguistics and to the culture in General. Any language keeps a memory of the Millennium development of the people. There are thousands of examples of how the study of languages helped scientists to understand the unknown aspects of history. The Australian aborigines, for example, the language spoken by young men a few years after initiation. A stunning example of how people with a rather low development can create such a sophisticated intellectual product. This language as soon disappear...
Languages die too
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