Today, more people than ever before are speaking to each other through
satellite television, cellular telephones and computers. This means that people
from different parts of the world need to be able to communicate in the same
language. That language happens to be English.Because of this, experts have
predicted that more than half of the world's 6,000 languages may die out in
the next century. Already almost all Californian Native American languages
are in danger of extinction. They are being swallowed up by English and other
languages. It is a pity, but that is one of the prices of modernization.