Despite this, schools still offer a Spanish-centric curriculum, "a system of education," explains Fernando Bojórquez, "which itself contributes to the extinction of the languages and cultures of original peoples".
Furthermore, these cultural and community traditions, often oral in nature, are disappearing with the extinction of the languages in which they are deeply associated, adding a component of urgency to the preservation of this valuable knowledge.
Other developments, such as the extinction of the Spanish language (except as a foreign language, with two weekly hours devoted to it) in the Catalan educational system may play a larger role in the future, as may the disappearance of a single justice system to resolve legal issues throughout Spain, as proclaimed by the Catalan statute.
Some organizations equate the extinction of a language with the loss of a biological species, and they are trying to call attention to the need to record and preserve as many threatened tongues as possible.
Michaels brings up the impending extinction of the Mati Ke language of Northern Australia only to dismiss as sentimental any disquiet over it.
The New Yorker, July 31 , 2000P. 79 Briefly Noted book review of "Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages" (Oxford; $27.50) by Daniel Nettle and Suzanne Romaine..
Such processes of linguistic expansion, while presumably common in human history, sometimes result in the extinction of other languages as the domains of language use begin to overlap to the extent that one of them becomes obsolete.
The lack of documentation and the extinction of many indigenous languages as the result of colonial cultural and language policies have made the prospect of official recognition of many tribes a remote possibility.
Furthermore, {Chester Mource argues that if a Language is not saved from extinction,} captured in the structure of the language could be lost resulting in a more improvished human race.
Furthermore, Chester Mource argues that if a Language is not saved from extinction, knowledge captured in the structure of the language could be lost resulting in a more improvished human race as a result of destruction of such precious life-saving knowledge such as what plants contain active ingredients for life-saving drugs.
