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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 |