Sentence examples for disappearance of language from inspiring English sources

"There's disappearing species, flora and fauna, but the disappearance of language is a major crisis.

The ruins, the inhumanity, the gradual disappearance of language all create a sterile urban landscape which is the result of hundreds of years of civilization.

"We ought to spend less time worrying about the disappearance of languages," he writes, "and more time worrying about the disappearance of any credible alternative to unfettered capitalism".

The event this year will also be notable for the appearance of documentaries in competition with feature films, the virtual disappearance of Chinese-language movies from the lists and a burgeoning new category of restored classics.

We see the long-ago disappearance of ancient languages like Hittite and Phoenician as inevitable byproducts of the same.

Now a new emphasis on learning English in globalised India is adding to that trend, and the result is the disappearance of 220 Indian languages in the last 50 years, the highest rate of linguistic extinction in the world.

"The French were the first, as they were worried about Anglicisms and the disappearance of the great French language.

European conquest and colonization ultimately led to the disappearance of many American Indian language groups and to radical changes in the groups that survived.

He begins by insisting on the need for uniformity in linguistic usage, and by complaining that with the disappearance of the sage kings language has fallen into disorder.

The book is by Steven Levenson, author of The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durgin and The Language of Trees (both produced locally at the Roundabout).

Although the universe as a whole may be divine, there is no need to regard each bit of it as uniformly divine; no need (for example) to feel quite the same about the loss of biological species as we do about the disappearance of human cultures and languages.