Language Endangerment, Language Death and its Factors

Abstract

Linguists predict that if the current bad crises continue to exist, half of the existing languages will die by the end of this century and only the rest will remain as the living languages. They consider the mentioned issue of languages as the most important language tragedy in the area of thoughts and culture. America, Brazil, Mexico, Cameron, Nigeria, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, India, and Australia are the regions where most languages will lose their lives. Many contemporary languages, which are endangered, are the ones whose speakers are careless in preserving and using these languages and have failed to teach and convey them to their new generations. Why languages die, to what extent the endangered languages exist, what are need and ways of preventing a language from dying, these and other similar questions make the discussion of this small research paper.