Language:fewer the better?

Several languages die every year. Many people feel this is a positive trend and that a world with fewer languages promotes harmony and understanding between people. 


Analyze both sides of this argument and provide your opinion.




Draft

Languages extinct?

Does its extinction really promote harmony and understanding?

Is the understanding between people sole purpose of language?
What else ?

Not just an instrument of communication,

Language is an asset of civilization,
It carries Culture, Civilization, Belief and tradition!

Beauty of individual language can be found in poems literature!

Should we discard all these values in exchange of single global language for effective communication across different cultures?

• Languages extinct
• Is it positive or negative?
• effect could be culturally devastating

• globalization push toward a switch to English or  other popular language in big cities

fewer languages : 

• less diversity
• loss of unique culture
• frustration of identity being vanished

several different languages:

• need interpretation/translation
• 
  

Vocabulary:
Linguist/speaker
communities/
endangered/extinct/die out/fade
preserve


An extract from Wikipedia


Following centuries of English rule in Ireland and English imposition of the English language, an argument for de-anglicisation was delivered before the Irish National Literary Society in Dublin, 25 November 1892; 


"When we speak of 'The Necessity for De-Anglicising the Irish Nation', we mean it, not as a protest against imitating what is best in the English people, for that would be absurd, but rather to show the folly of neglecting what is Irish, and hastening to adopt, pell-mell, and indiscriminately, everything that is English, simply because it is English."