Through the
movement of people, grammar and vocabulary change in communities. Even though
about seven thousand languages are currently used around the world, languages
incorporate loanwords that are adopted by other populations. Globalization
merges language use to a small cluster of languages, but also reduces language
diversity and may cause extinction to many others. Former colonial languages,
such as English, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Russian, and Portuguese were
spread beyond Europe and have made global economic and political systems
accessible.
Migration
to urban places causes speakers to adopt the most widely used language in order
to adapt and learn. Leading languages take over most global medias, making less
used languages unneeded. English, for example, is now a prestige language that
brings effectiveness to political engagement and international economic
pursuit. However, anthropologists believe by the end of the twenty-first
century, half of the seven thousand languages could be lost. This causes the
information and local knowledge developed by that community to disappear, such
as facts about medicines, plants, and animals.
Some
populations are trying to preserve their local language in written form to
avoid extinction. The Summer Institute of Linguistics, for example, sends
missionaries to remote areas to reside with a community to help create a
written language to translate the Christian Bible into the local language. SIL
produced a compendium of the word’s languages, Ethnologue, which is commonly
used. Information technology is starting to renovate the techniques
anthropologists preserve endangered languages. I read online about how other people
feel about the language movement, how English is the most dominant, and how
it’s hurting and helping the world. Alliance of Linguistic Diversity is working
on a project to preserve rare languages. The Endangered Languages Project is a
website that shares research of rare languages and gives advice on how to
strengthen them through records and samples.
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