THE IMPORTANCE OF SAVING
ENDANGERED LANGUAGES
ZHAKUPOVA A. A.
student, Nazarbayev Intelluctual school of Chemistry and Biology,
Pavlodar
OSPANOVA N. A.
teacher of Global Perspectives and Project Works,
Nazarbayev Intelluctual school of Chemistry and Biology, Pavlodar
Imagine that you are the last speaker of your language and you do
not have someone to talk with. How would you feel yourself? Personally,
I would be upset to find out such impossible news because there are more
than 7000 languages spoken today [1]. However, some statistics show
that half of those languages will die out at the end of our century. For
instance, according to «TheGuardian», Talysh, Bashkir, Scots languages
are spoken only by children, so they are vulnerable to die [2].
Due to my future profession, this topic will help me and other
people, who are interested in preventing «death» of languages. Moreover,
this issue can affect the Kazakh language too. There are only 18 million
citizens of Kazakhstan, only half of them know and speak our native
language and this data can decrease sharply by the end of the 2050 and
in the next century, there could be only one person who knows this
endangered language. So, Kazakhstan’s government is trying to solve
this problem with the help of the President’s address «Spiritual revival»
and his last message to Kazakh’s people. Moreover, the only thing, which
people should do, is try to follow our President’s suggestions and prevent
the extinction of our language.
Therefore, to prevent the extinction of languages we need to take
actions. My aims are to prove the importance of saving endangered
languages, to prevent the extinction of languages and find out what
factors do affect the extinction of languages. I wish my research could
help our country to not lose our language, culture, and history. Otherwise,
it would be scary to live in the country which citizens do not speak its
native language.
Moreover, if everyone tried to prevent extinction, now we would not
have thousands of dead languages because our doings define our future!
I believe that my research will affect people’s thinking.
People tend to believe that there are no problems related to the
extinction of languages that there are more than 7000 languages spoken
today but I would argue with them because half of these languages are
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