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Since technology has taken unimaginable strides over the years, world has become a global village.

It is argued that in the wake of technology a significant number of languages are weeded out. It depends upon the perception and perspective of different people as to how they take these changes. The following paragraphs depict both sides of the coin. To begin with, I would like to state that knowing a common language has played a pivotal role in the prevailing scenario. For instance, English is known as a global language because it is assimilation and amalgamation of all the different countries. Now any modern man can become a globe trotter capable of visiting, trading and getting higher education from any part of the globe. Hence, it is clear from the above example that having less languages gives more opportunities to explore the world more closely. Beside this, people can get a chance to know each other very well, owing to no communication barriers. On the contrary, many people are of the view that this will disappear many languages. Take India, For instance, the youth of this country prefer to speak in English, instead to talk in their own national language, as they believe that this will be congenial for them to settle down their career in near future. The reason could be that now the multinational companies are found any corner of the world and they hire only people that are good in English. Thus, it has been seen from the given example that, people feel that this trend will vanish their traditional languages. However, I am at the variance of this statement because it is today demands to know the global language as we are living in a techno-savvy world whereby nothing is possible without communication as every business, education, shopping and social interaction are held on internet. Keeping all the above in consideration, I would like to conclude that it is a positive approach that nowadays, we have fewer languages to deal with; because to embark the paradigm of excellence and epitome of perfection, one has to flow with the waves of water.

Every year several languages die out. Some people think that this is not important because life will be easier if
there are fewer languages in the world. Languages are an important part of the World Heritage. However, this heritage is partly dying. Every year some languages simply disappear, while some think that this dynamic is positive because life will become easier with fewer languages, I believe the humanity should try to keep most languages alive. The obvious argument for those who prefer having fewer languages in the world is that fewer languages spoken by much more people could facilitate the interactions with people from abroad. Many activities, from trade to transferring knowledge, could become easier if more people were native in the same language. For example, after the industrial revolution English has become the franco language used by academics, singers, businesspeople, etc. This is just one way of seeing the issue. However, it may not be necessary any language to die in order to another language become the way of how different nations communicate with each other. One nation and its people can preserve their own language speaking the local language with those whom understand this code as well as speak another language to become understandable by much more people. For instance, in Ireland hundreds of thousands people speak Irish, as their first language, and English. Irish is used to speak to their parents and friends, etc, and English to communicate with the rest of the world. In conclusion, based on the importance of language in a peoples culture, every effort to prevent languages to die should be considered. While another franco language could be used to facilitate the communication between nation.

Along with developing society, the habit of accessing international language and forgetting native language
becomes increasingly prevalent. Some people claim that if there are fewer languages, life will be easier while others think that this is unreasonable. I partly disagree with the former view for the following reason. First, it is undeniable that each nation has unique and accent and word and a native language indicates cultural values of its nation. Diversities of native language can be found on many songs, poems and daily speaking. By dint of studying by their mainly language, children can learn about their history and discover a variety of traditional cultures. Besides, the language of each country gives them a separate ethnic identity which cannot be found in other countries. Moreover, if an indigenous language is lost, the cultural understanding of the younger generation of this country becomes vague and vanishing. Second, it is believed that the appearance of international language is one of reasons for the disappearing of local languages. This issue is affected by many factors such as economy, education and sociology. Economically speaking, thanks to international language, merchants can exchange information about goods easily and they just need some minutes to make a deal. In addition, along with using a same language, children have opportunities to approach highly education system and accumulate their experience the culture of different countries in the world. Surveys have shown that in some countries such as China and Japan, governments have promulgated a policy about studying foreign language and keeping the cultural identity of their countries, so the value of their culture still

admirable. In brief, it cannot be said that the various languages collapse of civilization will deliver comfortable live.

Many languages around the world die every year, often replaced with more widely spoken dialects. Opinions as to
whether this is a positive or negative trend are mixed. On one hand, people feel sharing a common language may help to encourage economical development in the world. However on the other hand, many feel the losing of languages is a negative trend that makes it increasingly difficult to trace humanitys heritage. Both of these ac counts will be examined before a conclusion is reached. As many attest, the global adoption of a single language can do a lot in promoting economical development. For example, all export companies in China hire English speaking people to help them communicate with foreign buyers. The growth in trade that comes as a result of this effort to speak the worlds language does a lot to create jobs and industries around the world. Thus it can be understood why many people support this point of view. However, other people would argue that the rapid reduction of the worlds languages is making it increasingly hard to trace where and how people evolved. For example, during colonial times many lesser spoken African languages were replaced with English, French and Dutch. This phenomenon has understandably caused major problems for modern day historians, as these old and forgotten languages render many of the recovered historical records and artifacts indecipherable. After analyzing both sides of this argument, it is felt that more good comes from the global adoption of a single language than the preservation and practice of older languages. Thus, it is hope the world continues to move towards a single, standardized linguistic system.

The fact that certain languages have disappeared and ceased to be used is a well documented fact,
and there is no reason to believe that this process will change in the future. Quite the contrary, it is likely that even more languages will begin to disappear as a natural result of the globalization process. We can clearly see the dominance of English as the language of the internet, although many other languages are also catered for. However, people now have much more cross-border interaction with people from other countries and parts of the world, both for work and social reasons. It could be assumed that only those languages which possess a large enough user base; such as English, French, Spanish and various versions of Arabic, for example, will survive in the long run. Many other less well known language spoken or used by only a small minority of people in the world are likely to disappear in time. This would seem to be quite natural as each generation shares more common cultural bases provided and distributed through the internet which is now seen as the primary source of influence in many countries and the first portal of information for young people. As people share more in common, there will be a tendency to become more and more alike in many aspects of life and there may be a blending of cultures to produce one world culture which dominates over others. Language will also likely transform and it will certainly be easier for business and various other interactions if the majority of people in the world all speak or can use the same language to interact. It may not make the world a more interesting place, but fewer languages would certainly make the need for translation less necessary than now and it could possibly be eventually eliminated altogether.

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