Endangered Languages: Are Duty to Remeber

Just like the Bengal tiger, giant panda, and African Elephant, man has destroyed several languages in the same manner and only left remnants of what once existed. Men who claimed to be civilized failed to appreciate what it takes to develop a language. Every noise, every tone, every letter, every symbol, took centuries if not millennia to establish. Languages our gateways into the worlds of other men. We learn of what they valued, of their bonds, and about how they interacted with each other. Every bit of language has history and intricacy woven into it. Man must preserve the language of his fellow brother, if he cannot save it. The slow decay of these languages exemplify how destructive foreign trespassing can be. Yes, many civilization have gained much from imperialism but at the expense of culture. These dying languages along with the few that remember them are all that remain of cultures and societies now forgotten. With each language that dies, we lose of piece of what makes man unique: our ability to create, to learn, to teach, to pass on. It shows our failure as a whole to appreciate the work of one another and our failure to appreciate what our ancestors have done for us. All we can do now is pay our last respects, record what little remains, and never forget.