sábado, 11 de febrero de 2012

Endangered Cultures and Languages

Off course is important to protect the different cultures and languages that exist around the world. I think the most fascinating things that we have is the diversity between each other country, as Wade Davis said, “You know, one of the intense pleasures of travel and one of the delights of ethnographic research is the opportunity to live amongst those who have not forgotten the old ways, who still feel their past in the wind, touch it in stones polished by rain, taste it in the bitter leaves of plants.

Additionally , when people allow the reduction of different language, they also loss different cultures, according to prominent French linguist, Mr. Hagege who says, "What we lose is essentially an enormous cultural heritage, the way of expressing the relationship with nature, with the world, between themselves in the framework of their families, their kin people,".

In other hand, we can’t unify the different cultures, maybe is not easy to communicate with others but there is the special and the essential. The languages consist in different words with different means. In consequence, to major it is the number of languages, major it is the number of words and major will be the knowledge and information, which is the reason that moves to the planet in search of new things.

Finally I want to quote the Ethnologue editor Paul lewis, "We would spend an awful lot of money to preserve a very old building, because it is part of our heritage. These languages and cultures are equally part of our heritage and merit preservation."