Learning Journal #7 (105)

[Jeffrey Choi]

When a language is lost, an important aspect of that specific culture is gone as well. The cultural identity becomes disfigured and and the linguistic heritage is forgotten. The language of a culture contains the words and ideas that a particular group uses to describe and interact with the world. This allows them to be diverse in this multicultural world and provides them with an identity. If a culture's language dies off, it would be difficult to even imagine how the culture can flourish without its language keeping it together. If a culture adopts a different language, it would just not be the same. The cultural identity would still be lost and its traditions and ideals would become tainted. There is a lot that is at stake for a culture when a language dies off, so there should be a great deal of precaution in the preservation of nearly extinct languages.