SCHOOL PROJECT - VANISHING VOICES AND EXTINCTION OF LANGUAGES
Vanishing Voices & The Extinction OF Languages Linguistic mixture gives us exceptional perspectives into the human mind because it discloses the many creative ways in which humans consolidate and classify their experience. Anyone who has learned another language can appreciate the exclusivity of expression that is lost in any conversion. The vocabulary of a language is a portfolio of the items a culture talks about and has characterized in order to make sense of the world and to survive in a local ecosystem. The rapid loss of linguistic diversity has really only arisen in the last thousand years or so. For much of human history, the number of languages was roughly constant. That is because there were no immense, permanent differences between the expansionary prospective of different peoples of the kind that might cause the continuous expansion of a single, dominant language. This equilibrium has been punctured forever, first by the invention and spread of Agriculture, t...