- Respond to the reading, reflecting on what is lost when languages die. (You might want to watch the interview with David Harrison posted to the front page of the Ning.)
I think we need more interests and supports for languages that are dying. There are not enough ways for some tribes to express their feelings, values and etc if they do not have their own languages. If it is the matter of the number of people that are speaking the language, it can be harder to solve the problem, but to protect the variety of languages in the world, we need to document the diverse languages and learn them. It is necessary for some tribes that do not have a written language to adapt a new method (or more productive language to write). By doing so, they will be able to preserve their vocabularies as well as culture. I know there are some tribes like Ciacia that use Korean as their written language. I think it is a good example to secure their language.
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