Why we must save dying tongues

extinct

• a smaller group
• completely gone, no longer existing
• little known, difficult to understand
• to support growth or development

monolingual

• to happen, take place
• speaking only one language
• to support growth or development
• an incorrect idea or belief

imperiled

• to support growth or development
• a channel, path, or means of sending something
• completely gone, no longer existing
• in danger

heritage

• in danger
• cultural traditions passed down
• a scientist who studies human societies and cultures
• variety of life in the world or a habitat

displaced

• forced out of a position
• rare information
• to support growth or development
• most powerful or controlling

dominant

• exact, accurate
• in danger
• to communicate or express an idea or feeling
• most powerful or controlling

minority

• speaking only one language
• to happen, take place
• a smaller group
• a channel, path, or means of sending something

obscure

• rare information
• variety of life in the world or a habitat
• an incorrect idea or belief
• to communicate or express an idea or feeling

linguistics

• to be unsteady, off balance, about to fall
• the study of language
• speaking only one language
• in danger

anthropologist

• a scientist who studies human societies and cultures
• a hurried, chaotic effort
• cultural traditions passed down
• speaking only one language