THE REASONS FOR ENDANGERED LANGUAGES AND HOW TO PREVENT THEM

Abstract

Language is one of the most important parts of a cultural identity and heritage representing a specific nation’s independence and presence. However, it is getting prevalent for a particular nation to deprive of their mother tongue or to have become on the verge of extinction because of contribution of globalization, urbanization, and cultural assimilation. Many indigenous languages are disappearing, by which cultural and intellectual losses are occurring as well.  This article delves into learning why language extinction takes place and what can we do to ensure our language will live forever, applying available methods to find out, especially qualitative and quantitative ones. It is obvious that every country and nation is available due to the presence of a mother tongue, displaying its the most pivotal cultural aspects, such as daily communications, interactions or literature. In this research work individuals’ opinions are asked about what are the main reasons leading a particular language to extinction and what kinds of actions can be taken to prevent this global phenomenon.   In order to mitigate this problem, different procedures to preserve language are discussed such as actions taken by governmental authorities, language education programs, public bids, and the importance of technology.