Summative piece:
In this unit I have chose to do my research project on the loss of language. I am interested in this because this is happening everywhere around the world. There are already a few languages that have been extinct and some of them we never knew about. This is an issue that is happening around the world with different languages.
Issue1
Every 2 weeks there is one language that is lost. In one year there would be about 1400 languages loss. This is a large number of languages that is being lost and after a few years there could be more than half the languages lost. By this speed languages would be lost in a short time and people would need to start learning a common language to be able to communicate with other people. This is going to take people’s time away and learning a new language isn’t that easy.
Issue 2
Throughout a long period of time there would be a culture loss as well. People may leave to another country for work. In this country it would be a different culture so there are different festivals. The country may not have the same festivals so they don’t celebrate it anymore. Even if they do want to celebrate there won’t be the mood for the festival. It would be really different than their country. Also people might like the country and decide to stay there forever so they decide to immigrate.
Global Perspectives
The loss of language is happening everywhere around the world. There are many different languages that have been lost and some that are at the very edge of disappearing. There are about six thousand languages around the world so there are many that we don’t know of.
There is an International Mother Tongue Language Day that is celebrated around the world. This is a day where people celebrate and find out about new languages. On this day people can investigate and look at different languages from different cultures. Also people can