Language Extinction: Melanisian

Language affects the world view and reflects the need for people to communicate, explain ideas, and understand culture and traditional knowledge. However, language extinction is an important element in everyday life. The extinction of language means culture, religion, and social value, so its history is gradually being lost. Due to population, education and economic principles, language extinction has many factors.

There is obvious similarity between the annihilation of words and the annihilation of animals and plants. Like most living creatures of natural history, perhaps most of the language in human history has disappeared from the scene. In addition, the rate of extinction clearly accelerates language and species. In the past there was a special time (eg late Mesozoic, when dinosaurs were extinct), this process took place separately and locally. By contrast, today it is running worldwide and globally. We seem to be in danger of extinction - a threat to our natural ecology, and a threat to what people call cultural diversity.

The plight of minority languages ​​in the world is very unstable. Most of them are on the verge of extinction. The scholars talk about "killing the language", "death of the language", and "genocide of the language" and mention the disappearance of minority languages. The most important direct agent of language killing is the media and education system. Behind them are real culprits - the world economy, military affairs, political regime -. Children are taught through the medium of dominant language - often forcing them to use only dominant words

The direct massacre is the cause of language extinction. For example, when the European invaders destroy Tasmanians in the early 19th century, there were dead people in unknown languages. However, if you feel the community is being pressured to integrate with a larger group or a more powerful group, the language will be extinct. Sometimes people learn the language of outsiders in addition to their own languages; this happens in Denmark's Greenland where Kalaallisut learns with Danish people. However, the community is often forced to abandon their language, even their national and cultural identity. This is the case of Kurdish people in Turkey and they are prohibited from printing their words or officially teaching them by law. The same applies to the young language of Native American. Recent ig 6os is punished for speaking her mother tongue at boarding school.