When a language is lost, not only do we lose the fundamentals of how a group of people speak, we also lose insight on how an entire culture thinks. In any language, the grammar structures and vocabulary are different, and can give a lot of insight into what thought process went into forming words, what is considered important to know in a sentence, and how objects, people, and ideas are processed and talked about. Different languages show diversity in thinking, and to lose a language eliminates some of this diversity.
While it is a good thing that more people are speaking the same language as this presents a common ground in terms of communication and methods of thinking, the fact that the spread of languages like English, Mandarin Chinese, etc. has historically come with the active suppression of tribal/regional languages is very sad. Since language is very tied with culture in the form of culturally-specific vocabulary and celebrations, in favor of becoming part of larger cultures, smaller cultures are being wiped out, which again causes us to lose some diversity in the world.
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