Possibilities of a monolingual world and the results of extinction of local languages

In the current decade, the number of languages used in the world is being reduced and the possibility of a monolingual world is not too far. Whether this is a good trend to depend more on dominant languages needs a second thought. Considering the meritorious aspects of common languages, to a greater extent, it seems that usage of fewer languages is an advantage.

To begin with, the growth of any nation is decided by its business with the rest of the world. And stable as well as consistent development is promoted and encouraged by common languages. In other words, common languages topple the verbal barriers in globalization and promote development through marketing. To make it more clear, when people are able to share their ideas, features of their skills as well as their products with a vast number of people around the world by utilizing the most common languages, they are getting the opportunity to convince others and sell their products to generate more income. For example, investors of companies such as Flipkart and Amazon are utilizing the possibility of ‘English’ which is one of the familiar languages among people all over the world, to sell their products online to everyone regardless of their mother tongue and nationality. Hence, the usage of common languages not only creates new avenues for communication between individuals anywhere in the world but also a common market for selling their materials and talents to ensure better income and growth.

To add further, the usage of fewer languages in the modern era surges employment opportunities. In other words, people become capable of moving around the world to find new jobs which suit them. To illustrate it, when citizens of different nations are able to use a common language to communicate and interact, they can easily share their notions and can work together to achieve the common goal of any employer. For example, players of sports teams, especially football and cricket teams are from different nations with various mother tongues and they are able to work together in new countries by using any single language as a common language in order to collaborate with other team members for ensuring victory. Therefore, anyone can work in any part of the world by mastering the common languages.

However, the prominence of certain languages over other languages incurs the deterioration of cultures. To explain it, in spite of promoting migration, it causes a mixture of communities and cultural distortion. For example, tribes of Africa lost their originality and traditions as a result of the influence of interaction with immigrants to their homeland and they started following the modern lifestyle practices of the newcomers. So, too much dependency on common languages and their utilization sometimes negatively impacts and destroys cultures.

Based on the above discussion, it is clear that the usage of common languages offers more merits than demerits. So, if citizens try to analyze and solve the negative implications of the usage of fewer languages, a better standard of life and growth can be enjoyed by everyone in the world