SDLC 105: Learning Journal #7

[Tia McArtis]

When a language dies, the culture dies with it. There is no one left to keep the language and a pure form of its culture alive so it gets buried in the wave of modernization and “official language” learning. This reminds me of something I was thinking about the other day with parents not teaching their children their mother tongue and letting them grow up with the official language of their country. It is a shame when children are not taught their native language and grow up with a language like English because they are not being exposed to the purest form of their culture. The growth of the language and awareness of the culture will die with them since it is not being passed down in the next generations. When the language dies, it is very difficult, if not impossible, to bring it back. There is a whole culture that dies along with it.