Globalization damaging smaller languages (fwd link)

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Guwahati, Wednesday, November 13, 2013
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India
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*Globalization damaging smaller languages*

STAFF REPORTER

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.

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.

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