Language Loss

Post a response to the following questions:

• Why do you think languages, particularly indigenous languages, dissapear?
• What does the orginization mean under its "ethics" statement that it is dedicated to "allowing indigenous minority speech community members to integrate with, rather than assimilate to, the majority language communities?"
• What is a "language hotspot" and how does it help in the goal of saving endangered languages?What are the "language hotspots" in the U.S.?
• What historical processes do you think create these regions?