1. The importance of
protecting endangered
languages

2. Questions
 What are some of the minority languages
in your country?
 Are you concerned that many languages
are “dying”?
 Why or why not?

3. Overview
 The cause
 Influence of dominate languages
 The effect
 Loss of cultures and knowledge
 The solutions
 Support language preservation
 Train linguists
 Learn languages and appreciate other cultures

4. Question

Speakers of the Ainu language in Hokkaido, Japan
& some parts of Russia

5. The causes
 Example: the Ainu
language
 Today in Japan: 15
Ainu speakers
 In Japan 15,000
ethnically Ainu
people

6. Government control
 In 18th -19th century Japan
 Ainu people banned from speaking their language
 “dirty language”
 : washed their mouths with soap

7. Mass media and globalization

8. To sum up the first point

11. Conclusion

12. References
 Copy and paste your APA references here

13. Created by:
your name