语言死亡漫语

语言的快速濒危和死亡是一个全球性的问题，是对文化多样性的一个严重的挑战。认为语言死亡并不是一个新的语言现象，但对语言死亡的系统研究是社会语言学一个相对较新的领域，并提供了Ethnologue对世界上现有语言的信息，指出在死亡过程中的语言是濒危语言，强调一种语言面临的危险并不在于语言死亡本身，而是一种文化的消失，人类为这种文化所特有的知识也会丧失。

Some Thoughts on Language Death

The rapid endangerment and death of many languages across the world is a global problem.It is also a serious challenge to cultural diversity.The present paper indicates that language death is not a new linguistic phenomenon,but its systematic study is a relatively new field of sociolinguistics.The paper provides information about existing world languages given by Ethnologue.It indicates that languages in the process of dying are endangered languages,emphasizing that the danger is not the loss of a language per se but the loss of a culture.As a result,the knowledge that is specific to the culture may be lost.