Language and Communication

TOPIC: Language and communication

FOCUS QUESTION: To extent should everyone use one uniformed language

Reported by: Jolly Wu

SCENARIOS AND COURSES OF ACTION

1. We would develop a new language which replaces all the language that been existed.

Esperanto is an international auxiliary language that already existed, which is devised by Dr. Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof in 1887. About 1000 people use it as mother language. Around 2 million people can speak fluently. Many schools around the world have Esperanto program. Google, Facebook, Firefox, Ubuntu, Wikipedia all have Esperanto layout. So it is possible that Esperanto would replace our existing language and become our uniform language.

1. We would have a global language instead of having only one uniformed language.

Language is a key component of culture. It’s part of culture. Giving up our own language and use another language, there is no difference than being a colony. A global is a common language, which people using apart from their familiar language. Speaking global language doesn’t mean giving up own native and familiar language. By speaking a global language, being bilingual, people can able to express themselves and understand each other without translators. Being able to share ideas freely, gather the whole world together.

1. There could be only one language left.

Languages are disappearing in an accelerating speed. A language dies every 14 days. If this continues to happen, then there will come the day, which only several languages left. Then we would come to an agreement that we will have only one language as our uniformed language.

1. The situation would remain the same.

If we would develop one unformed language, it would have been happened already. As previously we only have few languages, but what is happening is the number of language keeps growing. In B.C. there was 12,000 languages existing. It would be hard for us to give up our own language that been used for our whole life time.

1. There could have wars and arguments for selecting one language as a unformed language.

In Belgium, residents speak two main languages, France and Flemish. There's been dispute between two languages since Belgium was founded in 1830. Caused lots of troubles, even some time the main reason of the dissolution of the parliament.