Analysis Of The Book 'Where Does The Language Continue'

Something that really stuck out to me while reading the first chapter of this book is that languages can slowly die. For example the language of taiap is slowly dying. When they were questioned on why the language was dying the only answer they could come up with is that the children refused to learn the language. It is fascinating to think that if children in America decided that english was not the language they wanted to speak would and could english slowly become extinct? Another thing I found interesting is that Marjorie Harness Goodwin pointed out that the values someone possesses come out in conversation. If someone spent enough time with a group of people that had different values, but they proceeded to have a continuous conversation