Native American Endangered Languages

Languages have been vanishing from different regions. An endangered language is a language that is most likely to become extinct in the future. Most of the languages that have been disappearing are being replaced by other popular languages that are being widely used in nations, such as Spanish in Mexico and English in the United States. Many languages today have only one native speaker still living, and once the person’s death arrives, it will also be the death of the language. It will no longer be known by anyone or spoken after the disappearance. The language extinction is both sudden and gradual. The language’s chances can be changed in a generation or so if it is no longer being learned by children or youth. New languages are being born …show more content…
Some of these languages are threatened because the children who speak English live near the speakers of the languages. All native North American groups are under pressure and being forced to give up their native languages and to speak English instead. Often television and movies are trying to send the native North Americans a message that frightens the communities, and not only the adults but the children also. In fact, so many of the Native American languages have survived all the way to the 21st century, is a huge evidence that these communities have a lot of strength and fundamental value of their language and culture. Basically, when a community loses its language, it usually loses their cultural identity at the same time. Language loss often has to do with pressure of some kind, and when it is lost, the speakers feel like the symbol was defeated. Genocide is another of the reasons of language extinction. Genocide is the occurring of killing a group of people, especially of those of a particular ethnicity or nation. So when genocide occurs, not only will it be the end of the speakers, but also of the language and the cultural identity of the …show more content…
People do not come into contact with the language, it depends on who control’s it and has the power over it. All of the indigenous languages are threatened, and a lot of them have disappeared and the ones that haven’t are still at risk. If there is a society that speaks the same language as the other language, they are being in contact with at least one other group and most likely several relatively small groups and it is an advantage to maintain different languages. The languages that are close together are mainly the small groups, and some of them are related to each other, so they are pretty