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harkovskaia [24]
3 years ago
6

Going, Going, Gone! Saving the World’s Languages” and “Building a Bridge Without a Plan” focus on endangered languages. Write a

multi-paragraph, informational essay explaining how and why linguists are preserving native languages on the verge of extinction.
Manage your time carefully so that you can

plan your essay and do some prewriting
type your essay
Be sure to

use evidence from both texts
avoid over-relying solely on one text
Your response should be in the form of a multi-paragraph informational essay.

Enter your response in the space provided.
English
1 answer:
Novosadov [1.4K]3 years ago
6 0

Explanation:

om Belt, a native of Oklahoma, didn’t encounter the English language until he began kindergarten. In his home, conversations took place in Cherokee.

Belt grew up riding horses, and after college bounced around the country doing the rodeo circuit. Eventually, he wound up in North Carolina in pursuit of a woman he met at school 20 years earlier. “All those years ago, she said the thing that attracted her to me was that I was the youngest Cherokee she’d ever met who could speak Cherokee,” he says. “I bought a roundtrip ticket to visit her, but I never used the other end of the ticket.”

The couple married. Yet his wife – also Cherokee – did not speak the language. He soon realised that he was a minority among his own people. At that time, just 400 or so Cherokee speakers were left in the Eastern Band, the tribe located in the Cherokee's historic homeland and the one that his wife belongs to. Children were no longer learning the language either. “I began to realise the urgency of the situation,” Belt says. So he decided to do something about it.

Cherokee is far from the only minority language threatened with demise. Over the past century alone, around 400 languages – about one every three months – have gone extinct, and most linguists estimate that 50% of the world’s remaining 6,500 languages will be gone by the end of this century (some put that figure as high as 90%, however). Today, the top ten languages in the world claim around half of the world’s population. Can language diversity be preserved, or are we on a path to becoming a monolingual species?

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