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This 3 page paper considers the threat that is being exerted by the modern world against indigenous languages and cultures. Between half and ninety percent of the 670 languages currently being spoken in the world will be extinct by the turn of the twenty-second century. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. The Loss of Indigenous Languages and
Cultures Research Compiled by 4/2011 Please
Language is integrally related to culture. While in todays world it is not uncommon for an individual to speak two
or more languages, their native language reveals tremendous insight into just who that person is and the social factors that they have developed in accordance with.
Languages, of course, evolve over vast periods of time. They evolve to meet the needs of a particular people in a particular set of
environmental conditions. The language of a Sherpa sheep herder is consequently vastly different from modern day English. While the latter has expanded to include words for our ever-expanding
technology, beliefs, and lifeways; the former is largely limited to a vocabulary that was necessitated by life needs for hundreds of years.
Just as there has been little evolution in the Sherpa language nor has there been the kind of evolution that characterizes the English language for most of the worlds
more "primitive" cultures. It is important to emphasize, however, that the term "primitive" itself is really defined by culture. What modern-day American perceive as "primitive" is typically in
actuality cultures that work exceedingly well in their own environment. A modern American transplanted into that environment without the knowledge that drives these people and their language would undoubtedly
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