Humans will not die after the death of English. Human survived when there was no language. I think National (country)language is destroying local languages
Humans will not die after the death of English. Human survived when there was no language. I think National (country)language is destroying local languages
Migration plays a large role in language change and language death.
A language dies when nobody speaks it any more. The saddest thing in the linguistic community is to witness the death of a language.
See the attached book. It is helpful.
In education, priority was given to international language rather than local/regional language
Languages are connected to group identity. If that identity gets weakened by other more dominant groups (invasion, cultural supremacy), then languages slowly die.
Just to add to that, Jurana, this can be seen in the Anglo-Saxon invasion (if it was) of England, the British invasion of the North Americas (thousands of languages died), Arab invasions of the 7th century onwards (changes in language were less to do with invasion than privilege tropes within societies based on learning Arabic). Just some.
Sometimes "language death" occurs only because the language has evolved, other times it occurs because the language was spoken in too small of a community to remain self-sustaining, in the modern interconnected world.
For example, Latin "died," but only because it evolved into Italian, and then multiple other romance languages. On the other hand, languages like Gaelic are struggling to survive, simply because not enough people speak it, so you need other languages to function in the modern world.
It's all part of evolution. To me, it is very important to facilitate global communications, as much as possible. People who communicate well are much more likely to get along.
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