Poll: The last spealer of a language has died.

[linwolf]

The last speaker of the Indian language Bo have died, this has been spoken for more than ten thousand years.
Now this language and a part of the worlds culture is gone forever.

So I ask you, how do fell about language disappearing. Is it something we has to prevent, or is it something that is just going to happen.

link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8498534.stm

 

[delet]

Has this language not been written down or recorded in any way? Truly, I don't care much about it; didn't know it existed before now anyway.

 

[Hobo Joe]

Well, clearly as only one person knew it it wasn't very important but I do think we need to retain language difference - a world where everyone speaks English would be boring for me.

 

[Timotei]

Did he write it down? If not, then that's his own damn fault. Unless your culture forbids writing it down, then that's the culture's fault.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[MurderousToaster]

So have Egyptian.

Do we have a thread about that?
No

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Fixed.

 

[Pimppeter2]

Seems to me like it died for a reason.

If no one cares to learn it, especially this day in age, then it doesn't seem all the tragic.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

It's always a sad thing (loss of knowledge, I really dislike that), but I don't think we should stop it, it's evolution. If we tried to keep it all alive we wouldn't go forwards.

 

[Evil the White]

Just a pity no-one could understand his last request. (ba-dum tish)

 

[Daffy F]

Well, that language Sanskrit is still going... That's pretty old...

 

[Heathrow]

We should keep records of the languages and store them for posterity but we're going to end up speaking one or two big languages in the end anyway so small language death is inevitable. I personally can not wait for French to die, the day can't come soon enough.

 

[flaming_squirrel]

It's worthless keeping a language alive just for the sake of it, but having it recorded is another matter.

 

[Woodsey]

Well, clearly as only one person knew it it wasn't very important but I do think we need to retain language difference - a world where everyone speaks English would be boring for me.

The language was part of a tribe descended from one of the oldest cultures in the world, and had been spoken for 10's of thousands of years - how does that not make it important?

When English or Mandarin are down to the final speaker you're not going to say that they weren't very important (not that we'll be around to see that).

OT: Languages naturally evolve and die, but it is a shame that it'll likely be forgotten earlier than a recorded language.

 

[NeutralDrow]

That sucks.

I'm dreading the day it happens to Ainu.

 

[SimuLord]

Gen 11:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

11:6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

11:8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

11:9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

So you see, children, multiple languages are the acts of a jealous, petty, vengeful, evil god (at least in the Judeo-Christian mythos). For languages to die out is to bring us one step closer to permanently rising up and slaying our celestial would-be master and truly claiming reality for our own.

Unite. Find a common tongue, whether it's English, Mandarin, Swahili, or whatever the world decides on (and it seems we're defaulting to English---even the Chinese in business speak it because it is the language of commerce and the lifeblood of global trade) and destroy the vengeful, evil god who would divide us against each other on linguistic lines.

 

[InsanityRequiem]

Languages evolve and die off like animals/plants/etc. If the people that speak it do not keep it recorded and it doesn't evolve like many languages of today, then it will die out. Language extinction is another form of extinction. We can try and prevent it, but it will happen.

 

[Mother Yeti]

Did he write it down? If not, then that's his own damn fault. Unless your culture forbids writing it down, then that's the culture's fault.

Take a linguistics class. Writing is not necessary for language.

 

[MagicMouse]

Extinction, it happens, its natural.




screw polar bears.