Linguistic Diversity

Undoubtedly, each speech community of the world has a variety of languages which are part of its identity. Some of the most spoken languages in the world are; Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian owing to colonizers; however, the linguistic diversity of a specific place depends on its roots and the way people accept the language.

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The linguistic diversity concept does not only reside on the number of people who speak a language most (official language), but also in the languages that are part of legacy, history and growth of a country, region, town etc. such as indigenous languages. For instance, in the world there are a great number of indigenous languages; however, the majority is not spoken because of the domain of a foreign language considered as the official language and the degeneration of the use given by the speakers.

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Subsequently, there are some countries which have two or more official languages, including indigenous languages which coexist depending on the context they are used. For instance, in Oaxaca the predominant language is Spanish because it is the most used language related to making business; on the contrary, Zapotec as indigenous language is related to communicate specific factors about its community, traditions, culture etc. Thus, as Spanish as Zapotec perform different roles.

Indigenous languages as foreign languages are an important part of the linguistic diversity of the world because both of them come from similar roots; sharing some grammatical structures, vocabulary, tone, meaning etc. making them coexist and carrying out the act of communication.

Linguistic diversity in the world must be respected and valued by speakers with the purpose to preserve the qualities that define and make unique each language in the world.

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