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If a Language Dies, Does Knowledge Die with It?, *you can hear the…

- - - - C: people and societies crucial to key moments/eras in history often had their own language that could reveal information about the time period which could be lost with the death of the language
        
        E: Fading-out of Roman Latin
        
        E: Death of Egyptian scripts/language
        
        R: Without exposure to other languages, the language of those important in human history are unique, often unable to be understood by outsiders.
        
        as a language dies out or is no longer taught, the resources produced exclusively in that language are no longer able to be studied to their fullest extent, thus limiting our knowledge
        
        R: Artifacts belonging to those societies often have their own language incorporated into them, can provide clues to changes over time regarding the society or the technology of the time.
    - - C: the death of a language can cause the loss of or lessened understanding of cross-cultural interaction in history
        
        R: Commonalities between languages of different societies shows breakdown of a language barrier
        
        Losing a language means the links between that language and others are severed, causing the relationship between their respective societies/cultures to be lost as well
        
        E: relations between romance/latin-based languages + people of the iberian peninsula
        
        E: Native American language compared to languages spoken by their colonizers
        
        E: Similarities between E. Asian languages (personal ex.)
        
        R: Diffusion of language or common elements of language shows early migratory patterns of different groups
        
        Loss of language erases the commonality or entire dialect that gives clues to the movement of previous societies/early peoples
  - - - C: the loss of a language can cause misconstrued inflection/body language/colloquialisms/connotation
        
        E: Chinese dialects and their inflections
        
        R: body language and its interpretations are different between cultures and is dependent on the upbringing of different peoples
        
        many actions in one person's culture can come off as rude, inconsiderate, or unnecessary in a different/foreign culture
        
        R: Unfamiliar languages or dialects can often leave a lot left to a person's own interpretation of body language and context clues
        
        the subjectivity of body language/inflection interpretation can lead to severely misunderstood messages often with negative consequences, often including a negative emotional response
    - - C: [knowledge of] certain behaviors/mannerisms/habits could be lost if a language were to die
        
        R: cultures with their own language often have their own phrases and behaviors often connected to the phrase
        
        without utilization of that phrase, [the need to have] the behavior would be eliminated
        
        E: bowing as a sign of respect in E. Asian cultures
        
        R: when a group of people share a commonality, they often develop their own, often unique, actions/activities
        
        as such, if that commonality (language) were to die out, the practice of that activity (and in turn, the knowledge of) that activity would also likely die out over time