Topic > The quest to preserve linguistic diversity

Language, the medium through which human beings communicate with each other, can be very diverse and is absolutely essential for documenting what it truly means to be a member of any ethnic, political or social group group existing today in the world. However, it also follows that with the destruction or decline of a group, the language also declines in number of speakers and dies. There are many factors responsible for this, such as changes in local attitudes towards the language in question, ethnic subjugation/conflict, social motivations that push the language to become moribund; but although it is worrying that with the death of the language the “intellectual wealth of the people who use it” is also lost (Hale, 1992), it is important to note that this is a natural social event and is not intrinsically a disaster phenomenon every time it happens. In any case, the pursuit of preserving linguistic diversity is not a bad idea at all, as it helps not only to restore a dying language, but to fortify communities based on the identity associated with their native language. . According to Colette...