90 percent of the World's Languages Dying Out by the End of this Century...

5fish

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jul 28, 2019
Messages
10,622
Reaction score
4,544
The world is losing it languages at a rapid rate and some people are up in arms about it . I am not one of them. I believe let the best languages win and keep historical record of the rest with recording of it being spoken. The world will get closer and everyone will be competing if we all shared the same language... We would all see and understand the world the same for better or for the worst and one world, one people and one love will follow...


snip...

The grimmest predictions have 90 percent of the world's languages dying out by the end of this century. Although this might not seem important in the day-to-day life of an English speaker with no personal ties to the culture in which they’re spoken, language loss matters. Here’s what we all lose:

snip... I admit this first lost is tough but their vision did not carry the day...

1. We lose “The expression of a unique vision of what it means to be human”

2. We lose memory of the planet’s many histories and cultures.

3. We lose some of the best local resources for combatting environmental threats


4. Some people lose their mother tongue.

You know the last one tough too but again it lost to better competition... Let them die peacefully...
 

5fish

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jul 28, 2019
Messages
10,622
Reaction score
4,544

diane

that gal
Joined
Mar 18, 2020
Messages
2,412
Reaction score
3,045
@diane , is one of these languages yours ...

No, not as long as I'm alive! :D Dead might not be dead, either. Tolowa was designated 'extinct' but there was a strong program to bring it back - and it is back now.
 

5fish

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jul 28, 2019
Messages
10,622
Reaction score
4,544
My hemisphere is missing!
I do not know exactly know what you consider your hemisphere as the New World but it seems no languages from the New World made the top 100 languages spoken... It seems the Old World languages won out...
 

diane

that gal
Joined
Mar 18, 2020
Messages
2,412
Reaction score
3,045
Conquest! Think there has to be 10 million speakers for your list. Don't think any tribe has that!
 

5fish

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jul 28, 2019
Messages
10,622
Reaction score
4,544
Here a video why Languages die...

 

5fish

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jul 28, 2019
Messages
10,622
Reaction score
4,544
Here is a video about American English pushing out the Queens English around the world even in Britain...

 
Top