Learning Journal #7

[Anirudh Viswanathan]

The extinction of languages is something that is interesting because as the article says, a language is becoming extinct every day. When a language dies, a form of communication that people used in the past dies. It is upsetting because this is similar to learning history. We should know the history of our culture and if languages are becoming extinct, there is no way to uncover the history of the land in those places. Learning the language of a place can give you historical context but also gives you an understanding of how other languages affected this particular language and vice versa.