As globalization held sway over the world, communities, which used to live inrelative isolation, sought access to the wider world, and in the process, they partedwith their own language and adopted a new lingua franca. The loss of language,however, does not merely mean the loss of a mode of communication or the loss ofa few thousand words. __________________________. So, when a language dies, a wayof thinking dies with it.

A certain school of thought regrets the demise of local languages but in recenttimes revival movements have emerged across the world, especially in India

A potentially endangered language can sometimes appear to be thriving, or on theother hand, it can show signs of declining

Languages exist not only for the purposes of practical communication; theyconvey a linguistic community's entire mindset and its culture

Since evolution and change in languages is a part of history, most of the languagesspoken today would be scarcely recognizable from what they were a few thousand or maybe even a few hundred years ago