1. Why do languages die?

Not used at schools

No young speakers Oppression and injustice Language loss The death of a language is more concerned to the nonuse of it as a way of communication. For example, when a language is likely prohibited to use in academic contexts, there is no communication purpose of it so it becomes a secondary language. 2. How do languages die? Moved away for another language, the one that is supported by government and also gives many opportunities and facilities. No young users, no teaching by parents Mother tongue or endangered language is mixed up with other languages by taking grammar, words, etc. But there are other ways to language die. Such as not being used by young people (which makes the language not interesting), in some cases they are not even taught the language from their parents who want them to have better opportunities and facilities with the official language. A slow and painful death of a language is when it is mixed with another language by taking some words in use, but then grammar is taken, and finally there is no original language anymore. 3. Why should we care? Loss of unique cultures. Loss of history. Lots of how cultures see world would be lost Language portraits culture Language makes people different: different cultures. When a language dies, the culture dies (Katy Lee, Berkshire). Every single language portrays a different and unique culture (and within culture: history, literature, arts, etc.) Language makes varied ways of seeing the world (for example, some languages gives gender to objects). When a language dies, all the knowledge within it is lost forever, all the color it provided to the world is gone. 4. Why are endangered languages important? Represents unique culture Gives color to the world They represent identity. They give more understanding of how languages work Every color by its own is simple to view, but many colors mixed make a piece of art. Endangered languages are the key colors of this world. Without those languages, the world would become simple as they represent unique and exotic cultures.

Culture and language are the fundamental parts of the identity. Letting die a endangered language is denying the existence of culture, of a identity, and giving a selfish importance to most prestigious or dominant languages is making oppression over people from another culture. Another feature found in endangered languages is how a community communicates; in other words, provides more understanding about the creation and usage of languages. 5. What are the Endangered Language projects about? Document languages by sharing and storing videos, photographs, word lists, experiences, statistics, scholars information among others. Endangered Language is projects that let internet users all around the world to share almost every king of documents concerning to languages that are endangered. The files users can share are: videos, word lists, photos, etc. The materials found in the project (website) are files documenting characteristics of a certain language, experiences, photographs, statistics, and information given by scholars. The purpose with the information gathered is to document, achieve and understand endangered languages. 6. Can we change the fate of the languages? If the endangered language is supported by government by considering its existence (providing more opportunities and facilities), the same language would get more young users and more people teaching it. More communication would be possible.

The biggest difference found is the analysis of the language that Enduring Voices do. Enduring Voices analyzes the languages by taking the media files and studying research results and, as a result, give statistics. Considering the factors previous mentioned, the project Enduring Voices is well organized in comparison with Endangered Language.