This website, (www.nsf.gov.) shows the reader why languages are important to all cultures. It explains how the worlds most scarce languages are rapidly dying daily. Basically, as the world population gets larger every day, more and more people are straying away from their cultures and learning languages that are easy to conduct business with. These languages include Chinese, English, Spanish, and Russian. As these languages go instinct, people wonder, "well, whats the point of worrying about these languages." The reason to study and learn these languages is because they encase the knowledge of thousands of different cultures. Many languages people speak currently are branches or come from the languages that are becoming instinct. Its importtant for a language learner to appreciate the culture of which their language comes from.
I think people don't really understand how much of their heritage and culture we could find and figure out if we looked back at these old languages.
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