2007-04-10 04:51:50 · 16 answers · asked by Silkie1 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
It's more than ten. The figure I've heard is nearer 25, i.e. about one language every two weeks.
Some languages are spoken by inhabitants of just a few villages ( or even one village) They find that their language becomes less and less useful once they go out into the wider world. Their own language loses status and they are reluctant to teach the language to their children, since they believe it will not help them to advance in the modern world. I have seen this happen in northern Nigeria, especially in the case of mixed marriages, where the children finish up speaking neither of their parents' languages - only the lingua franca: Hausa and (if they are educated) English. Eventually, there will be too few people left for the language to survive as a living entity. Occasionally, the name of the last speaker is known; this is the case for Cornish, where Dolly Pentreath, who died in the late 17th century, was the last person alive who spoke Cornish as her native tongue.
What happens to them ? Well, most of them just disappear, many without trace. In many cases, even the names of the languages are forgotten. If they have been written down by missionaries or by ethnographers, then they will survive in written form.
2007-04-11 08:24:46 · answer #1 · answered by deedsallan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These are tribal languages which are getting pushed aside as 'civilisation' reaches deeper into rural areas. As the older people of the tribe die so the native language is spoken by fewer people as the young people migrate to the big cities and eshew their traditional lifestyle.
Eventually, the last speaker of a dialect or tribal language will die and no-one has enough knowledge to carry it on.
2007-04-10 08:25:51 · answer #2 · answered by elflaeda 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They become obsolete . For instance the language of our native americans , english is much more practical and easier to learn and widespread so fewer and fewer people know how to speak the native languages.
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2016-10-28 08:37:00 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
people who know the lingo die away.the young ones are prone to move to "the big world".
which, obviously, uses languages that are known to more people.
2007-04-14 23:18:05 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
See The Tower of Babel.(sp?)
2007-04-10 05:00:43 · answer #6 · answered by surffsav 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't say they "die" they are more like forgotten but I think some people still speak them!
2007-04-10 04:55:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2016-08-13 04:37:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-04-10 04:56:40 · answer #9 · answered by Foot Foot 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Adapting to new cultures and they just dont use them.
2007-04-15 10:48:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋