10. IELTS: Writing Task 2

Most of the languages have been destroyed in this decade (10 yrs)/ century (100 yrs) due to the development of communication technology. Support your view with logic.

Introduction

A recent survey by UNESCO reveals that 90% of the language of the world would be dead in this century especially due the introduction of the internet. Because of the heavy improvement of this communication sector, languages like Spanish and English are the languages of the internet.

Problem:

Due to the development of communication tecnology such as the net, satellite TV and mobiles, the cultural of a paticular country is being destroyed. Dominance of English in these technologies seriously influences people worldwide to tern to western culture and language. Moreover, we can not help using these useful technologies.

Solution

Besides the internet, satellite TV, mobile, answering machine, fax, phone and above all, computers are the major commincation devices used by the people of this century. All these devices use English predominantly. As English and Spanish are the languages of the developed nations they are highly used by the latest communication equipments and technology. Therefore , they become the dominant languages of the world. This technology also helps the process of globalization that can make an international community with unified languages, cultural and education. People like the "developed culture" and are ready to accept their languages. Besides, movie, music and other cultures have developed tremendously in this decade, and are accessed free and fast via internet to people of the globe. Therefore, from native language to mother tongue, we are being destroyed with the advent of the internet. As we learn how from  the history, in the time of english colonization, people of the host countiries sacrificed their languages to English, and in most cases, the English is still the first or second official languages of these affected countries. Another example of language death is observed in Australia where people of this country including the aboriginals spoke 700 languages. Now, only a few languages survived among the majority English speakers. The UNESCO, the educational and cultural body of the United Nations, understands the dangers of language death. Therefore, it has given one language as the status of International Mother Language Day that is Bangla, The official language of Bangladesh, a south asian country. the reason is that in 1952, some people sacrificed their lives to save their mother tongue that was banned by its former Paksitani colony.

Conclusion

However, there are some measures from the conscious citizen of a country to protect its mother tongue from the aggression of the developed languages which are spoken by less number of people of the firstg world. For example, some Peruvians have developed and produced rock music in Quechua, a native language, one used by 70% people of this Latin American country. Thus, an individual country can develop its languages, education, culture, movie, music, media etc. up to the international standard and save its mother languages from being extinct(endangered).
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