SDLC105 Learning Journal #7

After reading articles and watching the interview, I keep thinking about this question:what exactly is lost when an endangered language dies? I assume that we will lose cultural identities and the richness and diversity of humanity's linguistic heritage. It is hard to image the bad influence caused by a language dies. People always use languages to differentiate groups and  describe and interact with the world, and thus forms an essential part of that group's identity. If a languages, it means an important part of culture lost in this group. I believe knowledge is coded in language and when the language dies, inherent wisdom will lost. For example, in my hometown, the new generation usually do not know how to speak the traditional dialect. Sometimes when listening to the elders, we found that we could not understand or do not know some traditional values, ideas or cultures due to the lack of ability to speak this dialect.  

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