Read: "Tribe Revives Language on Verge of Extinction" NYT.
This was a fascinating article. It was interesting to read about another language that is on the verge of extinction. It is actually a very sad thought to think that a language can just die like that. I can relate. The type of Indian that I am - Sindhi - has its own language, called Sindhi. However, the language is quickly dying out with my generation. My grandparents and their generation of Sindhis all speak it very fluently. My parents and aunts and uncles and others in that generation are also capable of speaking it, but they dont speak it very often. Now, in my generation, I have heard Sindhi spoken amongst my parents and my grandparents but normally when speaking in an Indian language, Indians just speak Hindi. I am currently trying to learn how to speak Hindi because it is important to me to be able to converse with other Indians in Hindi. However, because not many people speak Sindhi, it is not as useful to learn that language. My personal goal is to first learn Hindi, and then learn how to speak Sindhi, because I think it is very important to keep the language alive. I worry that not many others in my generation realize the importance behind their learning Sindhi. When a language dies, along with it dies the identity of a whole people. A language is a very important factor when defining a people, and to think that a language could just disappear forever is a very scary thought indeed. I hope that I can learn Sindhi and pass it on to my children when the time comes!
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