No doubt that the amount of people who speak some major languages such as English, French and Chinese increasingly surge. At the same time, some creole languages are on the verge of oblivion.
A language always associates with its own culture. When a language dies, not only the the language goes extinct but also the relevant history and culture fades. Language is a key to a new culture. To unlock a new culture and understand it deeper, learning and mastering a language is rather an efficient way to dig into cultures that a skill.
However, I am so glad to see that the danger of extinction encourages language experts and researchers to maintain the existences of languages by developing dictionaries, and documenting related cultures.
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