Language extinction is often the flip side of progress; as the world draws closer together, some regional differences fade to a distant, then a lost, memory.
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:It seems to me that language extinction is just a symptom of the broader issue of if we want a single, world-wide culture or many isolated cultures.
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I was also listening to NPR ( I think ) a few weeks ago with some discussion as to " why " language extinction was bad in the extinction of the richness of expression of ideas.
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In fact, one part of the language death says that there is such a thing as " complete language death " ( which from what gathered elsewhere in the article would suggestably be the same as language extinction ).
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I would never say they contribute to language extinction " as a whole ", but rather to the intermingling of languages, and even the creation of new ones ( such as Swahili, Malay, Indonesian, creoles, pidgins, etc . ) .-- TALK ) 00 : 14, 11 September 2011 ( UTC)
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The film addresses issues including the spread of major global languages and how they contribute to language extinction; political and social reasons that some languages have been repressed; and reasons that language revitalization and language documentation are important ( including both maintaining a scientific record of that language, and preserving unique local knowledge and history that is only carried in the local language ).
