Living Language

"Experts say that there are now about 4.500 languages in the world. The five most speakers are Chinese, English, Spanish, Hindi and Arabic. In total, one billion people speack Chinese.
But some languages are dying. Only a few thousand people now speak Choctaw, the language of the Choctaw Indians in North America. The choctaw peopleare trying to preserve their language and traditions, but it is difficult in a modern world.
Languages live and die. They also change. When we communicate with people from other countries we learn new ideas and new words. In English, there are words from a lot of different languages. Pizza and pasta, for example, are italian words, mosquito is a Spanish word, and taxi is from French. People travel, and languages travel too."
This article was in my English book. I am from Catalonia, a region in Spain. We don't speak Spanish here, we speak catalan. This language is also spoken in the south of France, and is the language that a lot of people speak at home. In the school we learn in catalan, and a lot of people speak catalan with their firends. But this language will die in a few generations if we don't preserve it.