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» сериясы «XVIII СӘТБАЕВ ОҚУЛАРЫ» 154 155 from extinction. In order to save human heritage because language is the only way to save history, poem, stories. For example, as was the Odyssey «How many other traditions are out there in the world that we will never know about because no-one recorded them before the language disappeared» [9]. Moreover, languages contain «knowledge» about geography, mathematics, zoology. As co-founder of the non-profit Living Tongues Institute for Endangered languages, Harrison said: «We lose ancient knowledge if we lose languages» [10]. So, it is something to care about and try to prevent it. However, how can we do it if there are too many factors, which affect extinction of languages. Although there are many forces which kill languages, there are many forces, which will save languages, too. Firstly, we need to increase the prestige of language by promoting it in media, technology and printing editions. Though Krauss said that television and radio are useful tools in enhancing indigenous languages. If programs are broadcasted in the indigenous language, people will be able to hear their language every day and develop their skills. For instance, one non-profit organization named Cultural Survival, Inc.7 has the project, which supports community radio and broadcasts in the indigenous language [11]. And it greatly helps to save the language it is everywhere. Secondly, languages should gain official status from the government because it will lead to more resources in this language and knowledge of the language will become more valuable to the public. Therefore, all languages that exist in one country they should be all equally valuable, for instance, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev envisages future Kazakhstan as the trilingual country. He states that we should know Kazakh as a national language, Russian as an official language used by Kazakh in local agencies and English as an international language [12]. Therefore, trilingual education has been piloted in 33 schools for gifted children in 2007. Then, when this type of education showed its success, it was implemented into 17 Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools and in 2020; the number of trilingual schools is going to reach 700 [13]. However, these changes sometimes do not help because people assume these innovations wrongly, for example, they think that the key point of this program is to learn English and speak only in this language, so they forget their native Kazakh language, which in turn, can cause many problems in the future. Now we have a plenty of endangered languages just, because of the wrong perception of people. Increase the awareness of people is equally important as the implementation of the program, so we need to change our President’s policy a little bit. Firstly, there is need to promote awareness of the role of the trilingual policy not only for students but also for all citizens in Kazakhstan. Secondly, there is need to increase clarity to how this education is perceived by teachers because they are the people who teach our future generation. For instance, the junior researcher from Nazarbayev University Assel Kambatyrova argues that educators find trilingual education challenging ad this can make us think that views and practices differ substantially [15]. So, to promote international language and preserve our national language all the aspects should be covered. Our identity develops from the childhood with the help of our family, so a family can contribute to children’s process of learning the indigenous language. Parents should teach their children their national language in order to prevent the extinction of it. Usually, children know well language on which they talked at home, so the better parents will try to teach their children the more speakers of certain language we will have. So, language is everything and only one spoken language means nothing. However, despite this, there are a lot of dying languages, which should be preserved, so that we could prevent its death and other cruel consequences. Also, there are too many reasons for the extinction of languages, which cause the death of culture, history, and identity of the nation. So, I firmly believe that this situation will change with the help of people’s awareness about this problem. Otherwise, we will be close to living in the world where people do not communicate. This research explores the issue of extinction of languages because there are too many Endangered languages. Purposes are to find out why this issue appears in order to save endangered languages and to identify what will be after extinction and how can we prevent it. Therefore, in this research the main questions are: 1 What do cause the extinction of languages? 2 Is it important to save endangered languages? 3 How can we prevent extinction of languages? I decided to write about it for our future generation in order to prevent further extinction of languages. Also, my research will be interesting for every nation, which language is dying, has already died or in danger of extinction. In addition, because I live in Kazakhstan for me it is important at all. My research in this area will motivate people and increase their awareness about that problem. There were two main types of research that I used in the study. First, one is secondary research, which was used in order to expand |