Save the languages!

It is sad to think about languages dying out.  I think we should certainly care about languages dying because they are such an integral part of different cultures and civilizations.  It is, obviously, how each culture communicates and can show us how a culture came about.

For example, I read about the Bantu culture in Africa recently.  There are several hundred different languages in the Bantu culture, and a lot of them were used to discover the past cultures of the Bantu.  It showed where different cultures were located in Africa and the kinds of systems they used from political to economical.  Anthropologists used linguistics to characterize certain cultures in Africa, so languages were extremely important.

When you lose a language, you start to lose everything that came with the language.  In our culture, with our language, we have a lot of different slangs and ways to describe what is going on with our world and to describe different people.  If our language happened to die out, then so would a lot of our opinions and a lot of our past.  People wouldn't be able to remember what we thought, and that is sad.  So, it's the same for all these other languages dying out.  We won't know much about the people as a culture or as individuals.  I wish English would stop trying to dominate our world.  It is not all about us.