Please watch the following video: http://www.ted.com/talks/wade_davis_on_endangered_cultures.html There are around 6000 languages in the whole world. We lose one language every two weeks. Hundreds will be lost within the next generation. By the end of this century, half of the world’s languages will have vanished. In this video Wade Davis states, “A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. A language is a flash of a human spirit. It is a vehicle through which the soul of each particular culture comes into the material world. Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.” Answer the following questions: What do we lose when a language dies? What do you think it takes to save a language?
