Languages Die, but Not Their Last Words

In this article named "Languages die but not their last words" brought a very important thought in my mind. To actually think of it the only well known spoken languages are English. Spanish, French. those are the most popular i guess you could say, but im only in what 9th grade? Thats all i have been tought and many others as well. We don't know about the other unspoken languages. And if the youth of the world doesn't know and if the elderly die off, who will know in the end? Well back to the article, this explain how world languages are dieing, but there are those few people that still have it fresh in there mind. It says "estimated 7,000 languages spoken in the world today, linguists say, nearly half are in danger of extinction and likely to disappear in this century. In fact, one falls out of use about every two weeks." wow thats crazy, and i would have never know to be that many. Its sad really to think that something so important to communication is forgotten or i should say pushed aside for a more popular language. Another thing that i picked up on this text is: "in bilingual cultures, as indigenous tongues are overwhelmed by the dominant language at school, in the marketplace and on television." That sentence just shows what crap has been put in the world. I mean, i understand that completely how the dominant language spoken near you, your going to want to speak as well. Its all about communication. Back to the summery, In this article Is describes how many languages existed...ill give an example: Amurdaga, language in the Northern Territory from this day has been declared extinct. To me the way i see it is if we as a world gave it time to learn about these cultures and learn others cultures languages basically expand what we know, who knows? endless possibilities. To end this summery, one thing that shocked me most and something to leave you here thinking is,
Another measure of the threat to many relatively unknown languages, Dr. Harrison said, is that 83 languages with “global” influence are spoken and written by 80 percent of the world population. Most of the others face extinction at a rate, the researchers said, that exceeds that of birds, mammals, fish and plants.
what shall we do?