Social Linguistics

Linguistics is a major part of the anthropology field. Today, one of the largest obstacles in anthropology, is language groups becoming endangered. During the last couple years they have become more concerned about groups that are switching from the original language to a different one that has more power and opportunities. The other reason why linguists have become concerned is the groups are becoming so small that there is very little chance of continuing use …showed first 75 words of 431 total…

…showed last 75 words of 431 total…research with direct benefit to the community. Basically, this means the only thing that keeps a language alive is its social function; the only people who can stop a language from getting spoken less and dying are the actual speakers of that language. As of right now we can’t do anything to save the languages from becoming extinct, but with a lot of support and help in the future we might be able to.