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Name: Anugraha Putra Pratama
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THE EXODUS OF LANGUAGE

Author: Jessica Kwik

I have chosen this article because it contains good news about the different any language in the world. Every nations or country have different kind of languages, is a kind of human culture, explain how the loss of language is much like the loss of species.

This article tells us about the development and extinction of languages. One of language become bigger and others are endangered. Languages seem to be converging to asmaller number, as languages like English seem to eat up regional ones. The three languages used the most by first language today are Mandarin Chinese, English, and Spanish. English is being used more and more as the main language for business, science, and popular culture.
When a language is lost, meaning no living person can teach another and a world perspective is lost because there are some foreign language expressions simply cannot be translated.

The author wants to tell us that language are much like living creatures that become endangered when numbers dwindle. And, for many linguist, preserving endangered language is vital, a loss in global languages means a loss of the diverse ideas and culture those language once held.

I think it is a nice article because from this we can know about the development af language around the world. Each language has their own uniqueness and expressed their culture.