International mother tongue Day, protecting the disappearing mother tongue by means of information

Yang Guang network Beijing February 21 News (reporter Li Win) according to China's voice, "Yang News" reported that today is the international Mother tongue Day, this year's theme is the use of information and communication technology to protect and promote language and language diversity.

There are now more than 7,000 languages in the world, but their future is worrying. This is because 96% of the language is used by 4% of the world's people, because the use of fewer people, so the world half of the language is facing the danger of disappearing, almost every two weeks a language disappeared. Such problems also exist in our country, there are 55 ethnic minorities in China, in addition to the Hui, satisfied with the use of Chinese, the other 53 nationalities have their own language. But as China's modernization process accelerates, the language of some ethnic minorities is also facing extinction, and at present only the Manchu and Hezhe languages have lost their communicative function, and 40% of the language has revealed the impending extinction is endangered. So experts have called for aggressive action, and if not, there will be only hundreds of languages left on Earth in hundreds of years.

The protection of this language's future is very bleak, the most important and effective way to ensure that these languages do not disappear through effective government measures is to recognize the official language, to enact policies through legislation and to have sufficient funds to implement these policies, said Smitkin, a UNESCO official on intangible Heritage matters. The official language can be preserved. At the same time, the description of language and translation of records, archiving and dissemination of the view is also very important. The experts also recommended that media and networking be included, because in the process of globalization, the interaction of the network will bring new functions to these languages, so as not only to enhance the visibility of the language, but also to enhance the confidence of users, so as to facilitate the dissemination and protection of these languages.

(Original title: International mother tongue Day concerned with the protection of linguistic diversity 24 languages disappear every year)