Language Loss

A language has many functions for people such as to communicate, convey messages to each other, read the reading materials and others. Languages are dying all over the world. Nowadays, there are thousands of languages spoken in the world, but many languages are at disadvantages as they are at the risk of becoming endangered and forgotten by days (Boettcher, 2013). There are 576 languages that have been listed by UNESCO’s Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger as critically endangered, with thousands of languages have been categorized as endangered or threatened (Nuwer, 2014) and Saaroa is one of the languages that are critically endangered in the world today.

Saaroa also called Hla’alua is an ethnic group consists of less than 300 people

People are continuously switching to politically and economically more powerful languages (Aulakh, 2013). As the Saaroa people are a minority in Taiwan, they are switching their language to the more dominant languages which are Bunun and Mandarin (Liu et al., 2015). It can also be seen in this today society as the majority of the people speaks another language such as English, Mandarin, and Arabic. It is easier for them to use the dominant language because speaking the dominant language will give them easier life to get into jobs, education and other opportunities in their own country and other

Some of the factors that lead to endangered language are people are shifting to speak another dominant language and people do not speak their native languages among the tribe and the power of the majority that lead the minority cannot speak their own language. Some of the solutions that have been discussed are people trying to save the language by recording collecting, and teaching the language and culture in order to preserve them. Linguists also trying to document about the language before the language are gone. Moreover, living in the digital era helps the language from disappearing. Lastly, the government should play an important role to revive the endangered