UNIVERSIDAD DE LA SABANA

DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

LEVEL 5, 2021-1

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Topic: What are the causes of the disappearance of some languages? 

Did you know that every two weeks a language dies? Language has been in human
life since the beginning of times, we use it to communicate and express ourselves.
Hook
So, when we see that something so important and with so much identity is
Introduction
Background disappearing, we must ask ourselves why it is happening.
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Thesis After this, we can realize that the disappearance of some languages is caused
by two factors, violence against populations and the economic and social
pressure they have. 
In the first place, violence against populations is something that has been very
Cause / Effect 1
present in the history of humanity. For instance, when the Spanish colonizers
Body paragraph (topic sentence)
Supporting idea arrived to the new world, they did everything that was in their power to implant
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Closing sentence their language, killing the native population and treating them very cruel,
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causing that the native language was leaving aside without any space for protest. In
brief, many languages have disappeared because of the cruelty and ego
that dominate some people, who do not care about the harm they may be causing. 
Another cause of the disappearance of languages is the economic and social
Cause / Effect 2
pressure that some families suffer. To illustrate, natives from all over the
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Supporting idea world feel that their language cannot bring to their children the opportunities that a
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Closing sentence global language like English can. Therefore, with the intention of not being left
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behind and provide them a better life in every way, they allow them to
learn the global language that in many cases cause the forgetting of their own. In
short, this inequality of opportunity should not exist. 
To sum up, attacks on the population and global trends are causes
Concluding Restatement of
of the oblivion that some languages have. Must be remembered that it cannot be
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Summary of main permitted that some people walk over others like they were nothing, also that in
(80-90 words) points search of a better life they do not forget that unique language. In conclusion, as a
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DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
LEVEL 5, 2021-1

Concluding sentence society we should not force them to learn a global language, conversely, we should
make important the native languages and preserve those roots that have so
many stories.