endangered tounges

Language is the building block of who we are. Through language people are able to discover themselves and the world around them. If language disappears people's identity disappears as well. Even though language can be considered a cultural block when you are traveling to different countries and don't speak the language, I think it is more of a cultural bridge because it show's more about that society suck as what they value and what they believe in. There is an Eskimo tribe in Alaska that has something like 30 different words for snow and if you compare that to English which only has one word for snow it puts in perspective how different these cultures are from each other. without different languages cultures just seem to blend into each other and people start to loose their identity because they loose words and or phrases that were unique to their culture. It's eerie to think of a language disappearing forever because then a whole culture is basically disappearing.