DEAD LANGUAGES
Language is communication equipment between ancient communities and new generations. Ancient civilizations created languages to be able to live with each other. In recent years, experts explored that the end of some languages is coming.
The term of ‘dead language’ is used for languages which are not using by anybody. So, why do end of languages come?
- If there is no any institution or community that protects language, this language will be ownerless.
- If the population of a language ending steadily and number of people do not increase this status brings end of language.
This kind of reasons effect end of languages. Although ending language is sad it has pros and cons from different angles. Actually dying languages means that there will be less languages for people. When someone go somewhere, he/she won’t need to learn another language. People can easily live everywhere with one language. Same languages creates same cultures, same cultures make same emotions for events. Another claim is that most of languages which are dead, they are useless in daily life. There are rare people speaking those languages and they are hard to use for scientific research, to write articles. The common ground for those languages is that those languages are spoken in very limited space. Those are example for languages which are died;
- Phoenician language
- Akkadian language
- Hittite language
- Khazar language
- Khitaian Khitaian
The stubborn fact is that language is not just a language. Language has sentimental values. Language means at the same time that cultural heritage and connection with past of community. Language is a link that keeps people with each other. Communities create a common history with their languages. National culture is first and the most important factor for countries. The way to be an original nations is having a independent language.
Taking into account all of these pros and cons, in my opinion the sentimental values are more important. Because when a language died, the culture die too. Culture is sine qua non for a nation. All of the countries whic are assimilated started to assimilated with losing their language.