Language: The Loss Of Language In The Human Language

The word “Language” in the dictionary is defined as ‘A system of communication used by a particular country or community’ and ‘the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way’. Whereas I define language as the ability to acquire knowledge from our surroundings. We use language to express our inner thoughts and emotions, to communicate with each other, and to preserve our cultures. Language can be both verbal or physical, written or spoken.

Language is the most important tool in communication. We need languages to survive. There are different languages that are found around the world. However, every year several languages die out. One language dies every 14 days. It has been estimated by the linguistic experts that by the next century nearly half of the 70,000 languages spoken on Earth will disappear.2 “Losing languages means losing knowledge”

(K. David Harrison, an assistant professor of linguistics)

Unfortunately, this means that smaller languages are in danger of extinction. Some people fear the loss of cultural identity while others believe that the world with fewer languages is better. Different people have different views of this issue. Language extinction is a great tragedy for human culture. There are some reasons for the cause of the disappearance of the world’s languages. It is because some speakers do not pass the language to their children. They may choose to speak English and