Language is one of the pieces of culture that people usually don’t recognize unless they go somewhere were the language or dialect spoken is different. Not knowing the slang or popular sayings of an area can make you feel like a real outsider, so it’s more than just communication.
Languages dying out is just part of the human evolution in my opinion. Languages are constantly changing, new ones form over hundreds of years the same as they disappear. That’s not to say efforts shouldn’t be made to preserve a language that’s dying, but if it’s just the natural order of things, there’s nothing wrong with that. Even without knowing the language of a extinct culture, one can record its history. There are aspects of language that can tell us what a culture was like, but that’s not all there is to it. That being said, a people that is being forced to assimilate to a different culture forcefully- like the aboriginals of so many countries is wrong- and in that case a language is being forcefully snuffed out, efforts should be made to preserve it.
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