▶ Your Answer :
I do not agree withe the opinion that death of the minority languages will be good for the world.
As the technologies for the global communications and mobility is developing in jet speed, we can be connected virtually with every person on this planet in every moment at every place. It seems obvious that communications will be much easier if we share common words and grammars. Even in Korea, some people argue for using the English language for public educations and government documents, because English is most common language used for the international communications.
But we have to take into account this; if we lose a language, the world melted in that will be lost either. The wisdom, the history, the culture, the attitude of a race will be diminished with their tongue.
For example, Koreans express the color of yellow in more than 5 ways. While ’Norang’ means pure yellow, ’Sat-Norang’ indicates strong yellow. ’Noo-rung’ is luggished yellow and ‘Nuri-kiri’ shows the pale tone of a yellow face. If we give up the Korean language, which is spoken by more than 80 million people, for the easier international communications, our recognition of colors would be restricted. That will make our world less colorful and we will lose a big part of the beauty we would have been able to enjoy.
The African word ‘Ubuntu’ cannot be translated into other languages exactly. This unique expression means an attitude for the coexistence and the mutual engagement of human race. Losing this word will be resulted in the disappearance of the precious African wisdom.
In conclusion, I believe we have to try to preserve minority languages in accordance with promoting the global communications. (284 단어) |