SHOULD MINORITY LANGUAGES BE PRESERVED

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SHOULD MINORITY LANGUAGES BE PRESERVED?

Minority languages are the languages spoken by a group of people sharing common ethnic, racial, or religious backgrounds, especially when the no of people in the group is comparatively small in proportion to a given population. Minority languages are usually given less importance all over the world justifying the fact that, more often than not, everything that is in larger quantity is the mightiest. So, languages spoken by comparatively larger population are given more importance. This is usually the case everywhere. In doing so, however, minority languages haven’t been able to progress, and have almost gone extinct as a result of lack of preservation, promotion and equal status.

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Every language holds equal importance to its native speaker. One can fully express himself only through his/her own native language. Expression of ideas, feelings, beliefs, thoughts, emotions, on which the whole world is heavily dependent, can only be done through language and most efficiently and effectively through the mother tongue that everyone is born with. The minority groups are no exception to this. Without minority languages, they are as good as dead. They won’t be able to share with the world what they know and feel which will only be a huge loss to the world. Imagine Gandhi unable ...

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