Should government spend public money on saving small languages?
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Several languages are in danger of extinction because they are spoken by very small numbers of people. Some people say that governments should spend public money on saving these languages, while others believe that would be a waste of money. Discuss both these views and give your opinion.
In recent years, the issue of whether government should spend money on saving some languages which are spoken by minority of people has sparked a series of controversies. While Someone said it is necessary, others believe it is meaningless. From my opinion, I support the later one.
On the one hand, language is regarded as the representation of culture, because it often constants a local and unique style of thinking form a certain region. Thus, saving a language means saving the regional culture in some extents. For example, the language form XinLi where is located in the rural area in China, is spoken by only 10 thousand residences. But, there are nearly 100 thousand people learn it on the internet due to it’s special logic and pronunciation. If the government did not protect this language from extinction, no one could get the beauty of this delicate language and the culture behind it.
On the other hand, the importance of other issues that ought to be addressed by the government should not be underestimated, such as starvation and health issue. Compared with saving language, saving lives is more urgent, because we are nothing without lives. In some developing countries, even in some developed countries, a number of people are suffering from starvation or poverty, if the public departments could take their responsibility to deal with it, like investing more money on food production or basic healthy insurance, many people might have a hope of life. A report from The Economists indicated that in Guizhou, China, 1000 dollars can matin a poor family’s live for a year. The budget of the government is limited, using this 1000 dollar on saving a less well-known language means taking away that family’s hope.
In summary, from the points given, I believe the governments should invest more on some more urgent issues rather than a language.