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Mario Freitas 
Brazil
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There are several endangered languages all over the world. The indigenous languages, for example, are mostly endangered, as well as the Indians themselves.
However, I think most languages are sverely endangered with this new fashion that "the language is alive", "the language is dynamic and we must accept the popular changes", "we should not follow only the grammar rules and always go by the book", and other such assertions people use mostly as excuses not to learn or to justify the... See more There are several endangered languages all over the world. The indigenous languages, for example, are mostly endangered, as well as the Indians themselves.
However, I think most languages are sverely endangered with this new fashion that "the language is alive", "the language is dynamic and we must accept the popular changes", "we should not follow only the grammar rules and always go by the book", and other such assertions people use mostly as excuses not to learn or to justify their errors. And this fashion is growing immensely, sort of like the current distorted politically correct. People are forcing the mistakes to become acceptable instead of forcing their kids to write and speak correctly.
So I must agree with Chris:
Chris S wrote:
Can I be the first to say English?
[Edited at 2017-04-08 04:43 GMT] ▲ Collapse
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Clarisa Moraña wrote: Gianluca Marras wrote:
I was born in Sardinia, which has its own language, and unfortunately this is slowly disappearing. When I was in Sardinia I was told that almost every town has a different Sardinian variant, thus academics could not agree in which was the most "accurate" one, and that language teachers from one town might not be able to teach in another town as they might have a different way of speaking. BTW, I have a nice Sardinian cookbook, written both in Italian and Sardinian, and I can understand almost both languages (I speak a litte of Italian, and I'm a Spanish-speaking.
That's true, Clarisa, just if we want to make it simple we have TWO main variants of Sardininan (one is spoken with different pronunciation of some words and some minor differences in vocabulary in the north of Sardina, the other variant in the south). So let's say that if you speak the language of the north someone from the south will not understand (and viceversa).
Then, within the boundaries of these two main variants there are other variants.... it can get really complicated
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