In many countries, old or traditional languages are dying out or being forgotten, especially by younger people. Is this an acceptable development or something that we should try to prevent?
It is unfortunate that most languages are on the verge of dying but that is the price of progress. Some see this as something that occurs inevitably while others say that it is an acceptable development. There are arguments on both sides which I will elaborate more below.
On the one hand, I believe that all languages are unique and help to identify who we are. Losing a language can mean losing crucial knowledge about the local environment. For the reason, it is often very important to the community itself that its language survive. In addition, the loss of human languages also severely limits what linguists can learn about human cognition. This, in turn, tells us important things about the human mind. The fewer languages to study, the less we will be able to learn about the human mind.
On the other hand, the reduction in the number of languages spoken is a great way to help unify the world and the human race in general. Having one, or a few global languages will make things much more convenient and seamless. Also, languages isolate communities which are most likely to be economically weak. If we as human beings can all communicate in the same tongue, then maybe we will start to treat the whole population of the world equally. Furthermore, languages naturally evolve. Communities are best served by a language which can be used to communicate intelligibly with the greatest number of people. It would seem to me that the fewer the number of languages, the fewer the chances for misunderstanding one another.
In conclusion, it seems to me that this is an acceptable development. But, however, this does not mean that we must abandon our mother tongue. This is because these new languages do not compare to the linguistic heritage that is being lost.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, however, if, may, so, then, while, in addition, in conclusion, in general, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 10.4138276553 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 7.30460921844 192% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 24.0651302605 137% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 35.0 41.998997996 83% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1475.0 1615.20841683 91% => OK
No of words: 305.0 315.596192385 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.83606557377 5.12529762239 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17902490978 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71450066133 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 176.041082164 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.544262295082 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 474.3 506.74238477 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0721442886 118% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 24.5560019123 49.4020404114 50% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 77.6315789474 106.682146367 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.0526315789 20.7667163134 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.10526315789 7.06120827912 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.204847900045 0.244688304435 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0662301471647 0.084324248473 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0422527051444 0.0667982634062 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.136273605843 0.151304729494 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0298388820217 0.056905535591 52% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.4 13.0946893788 72% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 50.2224549098 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.3001002004 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.5 12.4159519038 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.69 8.58950901804 90% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 78.4519038076 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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