What are some endangered languages, and why is language preservation important?
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Languages are the tongues of nations, we learn about cultures and roots through languages. When a language gets endangered, a big part of History is gone.
Some endangered languages are languages that have very few speakers left and are at risk of disappearing completely. some of the endangered languages in the United States are: • Abenaki, a Native American language spoken by less than 20 people in Vermont and New Hampshire. • Chinook Jargon, a pidgin language that was once widely used for trade and communication in the Pacific Northwest, but now has only a few dozen speakers in Oregon and Washington. • Hawaiian, a Polynesian language that was once the official language of Hawaii, but now has only about 1,000 native speakers, mostly on the island of Niʻihau. • Navajo, a Native American language that is the most widely spoken indigenous language in the US, but still has only about 170,000 speakers, mostly in Arizona and New Mexico. • Pennsylvania German, a German dialect that was brought by immigrants from Germany and Switzerland in the 18th and 19th centuries, but now has only about 250,000.
Hawaiian is a language that comes to mind. I read that there has been a concerted effort to preserve the language in recent decades, which I think is so important for native Hawaiians who have often been made to feel like foreigners in their own land.
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There are tons of endangered languages and just about every country has a few of there own, Latin Afrikaans
Cornish - spoken in Cornwall, England. Ainu - spoken by the Ainu people of Japan. Language preservation is important for our cultural heritage and linguistic diversity.
