It is important to stabilize the language by having a group of people who speak the language so the language doesn't die out. Siletz Dee-ni was a dying language, but was preserved through the creation of dictionaries with an "impressive size and search capabilities." Moreover, the language is now taught in elementary school in Siletz, and the tribe is working further to establish language programs in high school to allow Siletz to be taught as a foreign language to preserve its indigenous language and history. When a language dies out, people lose cultural identities, richness, and diversity of humanity's linguistic heritage. A language contains the words and sounds that a particular group uses to describe and interact with the world, and thus forms an essential part of that group's identity. In order to preserve that identity, many people are trying to preserve languages from dying out just like we are trying to prevent endangered species from going extinct to maintain diversity in the ecosystem.
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