Tuesday, September 18, 2007

world languages dying off , BY:Brandon Fiest

In the world today there is an estimated 7,000 languages spoken, of all nearly half are facing extinction. In such a speedy decline as also estimated every two weeks, 1 language is lost. As some languages are lost at an instant rate caused by the death of the sole surviving speaker. Others lost at a slower rate due to television or the dominant language at school or in that nation even. The most hurt areas by this include: Northern Australia, Central South America, and Northern Americas upper pacific zone, Eastern Siberia, and Oklahoma and Washington. With all these languages lost it is a huge impact on a countries history, life style, and true roots of that civilization. Something not worth loosing, for anything.

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