I strongly disagree with the main theme of the Malik’s essay: languages with a small amount of their speakers or with no speakers at all should die. An author claims that “if the language is spoken by one person or even a few hundred – it’s not a language at all”. In my opinion – it is a language still. Malik says that “the purpose of language is to enable the communication” – even a language of a few hundred people give them an opportunity to communicate between each other. Going back to this two author’s statements, it is Continue reading...
