Language Extinction

Introduction Extinction of language is a well-known subject among linguists. It occurred at the beginning of the human language, and there is no doubt it will last until the end of time. However, in the modern world, this phenomenon is globalized and has clear features at the same time. Today, we have survived for centuries, but we are faced with a death audience in a language that can not deal with the new challenges of the world's villages. Italian Alghero City, known as the Mediterranean Algaeze on the west coast of Sardinia, is considered an endangered language and is therefore in danger of extinction.

Evidence that language loss increases and language harm is becoming serious can be found in the history of language extinction and the current state of language. Among the 312 known languages ​​Europeans first used when arriving in North America, 156 was abolished (50%). In America today, there was a thing of that time. 280 languages; now 161 no longer has native speakers (56%). The rest of the 119 people are in danger of extinction, most of them are in danger, only about ten children are still being told to the children. In a hurry California, there are about 100 American Indian languages. In 1850, but today we speak only 18 people, children are not learning this knowledge through intergenerational communication. In Australia, seriously endangered languages ​​and languages ​​are no longer in use in the majority of Latin America and northern Eurasia; in fact, any region of the world is inevitable of language harm.

The extinction of the language is nearly up to date. There were hundreds of other languages ​​in addition to famous incidents such as Etruscans, Hittite, Sumerians, Yana, Ishi (survivors of famous tribes who died in 1916). Pass history. So, why is there a current alert? This is because the degree and speed of language extinction is much greater than at any point in world history. Michael Krauss, an appellation of frequently quoted endangered languages, said, "Depending on the speed of development, the next century will experience 90% of human language death or misfortune" (Krauss , 1992, p 7). Recently, the endangered language catalog calculated that there was one extinction of language every 3.5 months. The increase in the rate of language loss and the number of recently disappeared languages ​​is shocking and shows a worsening in the future.