My immediate thought after reading this article was like there is nothing wrong or disadvantageous in having a single language all over the world. It would make

My immediate thought after reading this article was like there is nothing wrong or disadvantageous in having a single language all over the world. It would make communication easy and universal. But the point here, which the author stresses, is that every language has its own perspective of looking at an object, emotion, action etc. If we let a languages die then we are essentially losing this perspective. May be there is some language in this world which can express a particular emotion which other languages, for example English, cannot express no matter what. Won't humanity lose a lot in this scenario? And besides this I think that English is the so called universal language just because English speaking population conquered most of the world. It is not so that English is the easiest or most simple and complete in all aspects. As a student of science I tend to believe in universality of language. It makes exchange of knowledge easy. But the points that I mentioned above are also important. According to me, letting a set of people try and revive the dying languages is worthy and helpful to human civilization.