"Languages Vanishing Like Dinosaurs"

Sam Roberts’s article, “Listening to and Saving the World’s Languages,” was a an eye opening to the way languages become extinct. However, it was not a surprise to read about New York being culturally diverse and rich in languages, it was actually great to realize that these qualities were actually facts about the city.It certainly made me aware that there was really a problem occurring with the extinction of languages. The article was about languages and how they were becoming extinct through different means. There were many languages in New York alone that were becoming wiped out through globalization. The project of “The Endangered Language Alliance” was a project that would enable linguists to capture these languages before they die out. Something that I didn’t know that disappointed me was the fact that these languages even existed. I didn’t know that there could be a language that existed with only one person in New York that speaks Mamuju. It’s hard for me to understand this situation because the languages that I grew up around have always seem to be ones that many people spoke. I didn’t think that in the generation that we live in, there could be languages that would become extinct. My questions to everyone is “Do you believe your language makes you the person you are” “What are ways to keep your language from extinction,and what can we do as individuals to help prevent that.?