The culture, the local knowledge, traditions, the religious of the people might go away with the language. The uniqueness of the culture will no longer be passed, learned, understood or comprehended by people if the language is gone. In the reading, language experts try to save the Siletz Dee-ni by creating online dictionary for people to learn. But the problems is, there is not enough people who speak the language on a daily basis. People who are not born with this language, can never comprehend the culture behind it or merge into the language and its culture because they don’t live with it. Language learners can only know how to pronounce the words and directly translate the words. But the meaning of those words in the real life is hard to apply. Thus, the culture, knowledge, local people’s traditions and religious, cannot be preserved by dictionaries. When the language is gone, all of the things will go away with it.
In the context of globalization, a single language being lost seems not a big deal, after all there’s very few people speak it. And small group of people has to keep up with the globalization by speaking the more common languages, English, Spanish, Chinese, etc. People seems to lose the language inevitably. However, globalization is damaging the cultural diversity by forcing people to communicate in common language. Some might lose the native language by practicing too much of the adopted language and not passing the native one to the next generation. Thus, even the descendants of the language still exist, the culture might disappear as well.
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