Diffucult question.
FGor me, very personally, language is culture. I mean the huge cultural backdrop - every word evolved in a certain cultural background. That's why Tolkien invented a
world for his favourite language, Quenya.
You can't really see it, until you dig deep enough, because it's somewhere buried deep in the hill on which were're living - and that hill is just a collapsed bunch of other hills of people living before us.
So, with every dying language, culture dies, too, from my very personal point of view.
With English taking over, culture is taking over. Not everything, but the hill of the English language overlaps and eventually suffocated the other hill lying beneath it.
I take a look at south america. The language there is the Spanish language, or the Portugues one. But the culture has more or less survived - at least to soime extend (look at the Maya etc. ... but they are partially still speaking their own languages).
English in all of it's Grammar etc. is to me a "reduced" language. The more simple, the better to learn, the more "reduced" in Grammar etc. .
I'm very, VERY concerned about English spreading so much and forcing more and more languages to die out. Language as a form of Imperialism ?
Alrik.
P.S. : And when I read topics like
this one, I simply get sick.
