Language plays an integral role in a culture. Of course, everyone communicates with it on a day to day bases. As the cultures of the world integrate and begin or continue relations languages will either change or die out, to make communication between cultures easier. Language helps make a culture unique, some mannerisms maybe only said with a word or the distance someone a speaker and listener should be.
However, when a language dies a lot goes with it because it is greatly intertwined within the culture. If a a language goes so will songs and stories that have been passed down. Now I understand, that a few current languages derive or relate from dead ones, listen to Latin words then Spanish and English words. However, some cultures (like the Sumerians) have Isolated Languages, a language system that has no relatives, nothing derives or uses words from it. With that the culture will be lost for a quite some time.
Therefore, economically for the word it would be easier for languages to die or merge but a great part of the culture will die with it.
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