<div dir="ltr">Guwahati, Wednesday, November 13, 2013<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;display:inline"> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">India</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;display:inline"></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><b><font size="4"><br></font></b></font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><b><font size="4">Globalization damaging smaller languages</font></b><br>
<br>STAFF REPORTER<br><br>GUWAHATI, Nov 12 – Speakers at a national seminar on ‘Endangered Cultures and Dialects with Special Reference to North East India’ voiced concern over the waning influence of indigenous languages and dialects on their peoples, pushing in the processmany such languages and cultures into oblivion.<br>
<br>The speakers were unanimous in their view that the rapidly expanding cult of globalization with its thrust on an all-pervasive mono cultural identity was particularly damaging for the smaller languages and dialects. This, the speakers said, was negating the right of the diverse cultures to exist and thrive.<br>
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