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I Speak Another Language

I have just read that every two weeks a language dies out. I think it is a great lost when it happens. Language are one of the main expression ways of a culture, when a language dies out the world becomes more homogeneous.
I hope the day never comes when a single language is spoken in the world, whichever this language isn

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Mugin16 · 46-50, M

Quote by Dyson Freeman, 1979:

"It is true that a world with a universal common language would be a simpler world for bureaucrats and administrators to manage. But there is strong evidence…that plasticity and diversity of languages played an essential role in human evolution. It is not just an inconvenient historical accident that we have a variety of languages. It was nature’s way to make it possible for us to evolve rapidly…. Biological progress came from random genetic fluctuations that could be significant only in small and genetically isolated communities. To keep a small community genetically isolated and to enable it to evolve new social institutions, it was vitally important that the new members of the community could be quickly separated from their neighbors by barriers of language."

Cierzo · M

Wittgenstein said that the limits of the language are the limits of thought. Therefore, a larger variety of languages brings a larger variety of thoughts

novembermoon · 51-55

@Cierzo: : I agree very much with this. To know only one language is to limit your worldview. Although English is widely used, it is not the only way of looking at the world.

Cierzo · M

@novembermoon: It is widely used because it is the language used in the currently most powerful country in the world, and it is easy to learn compared to other languages. Aren't those the reason why certain visions become the more popular ones?