Argumentative Essay On Saving America's Endangered Languages

There are many languages that die out like the mysterious Peruvian language or the Egyptian hieroglyphics. The Native Americans’ language might be the next extinct language because of how endangered it is. There are many groups that are trying to keep the language from being endangered and some statistics show that have the language around, rather than extinct would prove to be more beneficial. An article that was found on the web, titled “Saving America’s Endangered Languages” uses different kinds of appeals in it to prove that the endangered language must be saved. According to the article, it states that the Native American’s language was at first stolen by the first immigrants that came to america and eventually turned into a newer language that we know today, English. The way the system worked, it tried to get rid of the Native language for the newer language and punished those Indians that refused to speak english and clung onto their culture. The fear of being …show more content…
The act made it that the law established a federal policy to promote and protect Native American rights to practice and use Native American languages. Many have made efforts to fund help tribes revitalize their languages. Although even with funds being giving to help these languages stay alive, a lot more money is needed. In conclusion, even though Native Americans were robbed of their language and were forced by fear to learn a modified version of their language, many efforts are being made to help other tribes that still exist keep their language from being extinct. Practicing these endangered languages are proven to benefit the communites with results of better academic statistics and community environments. So you ask yourself why did the earliest immigrants that migrated to America choose to rid the language these Native Americans