It is clear that, nowadays several languages are coming across to the extinction, and reason of this issue, numbers of people is not enough for their survival. As for the solution, governments should allocate public funds to preserve these languages, while some believe that it would be waste of money.
On one hand, languages are an important part of cultural heritage, history, and identity in each country. Moreover, every nation has own linguistic priorities. If their languages disappear, they will lose its value. By investing public-scale funds on language preservation programs such as education, media, or digital resources could be seen effective solution for the language disappearance. In addition, these efforts can keep language survival in long run for future generations.
On the other hand, abundance people believe that spending more money on endangered languages is not considerable. Predominantly, they think that there are urgent priorities like healthcare, infrastructure, and education in widely spoken languages. They argue that languages naturally evolve, and if a language is disappearing, due to lack of use, it might not be practical to force its survival.
In conclusion, while channeling public money on languages has cultural and historical value, governments need to balance this with other pressing needs. A possible solution is to support language preservation through community-led initiatives rather than large-scale public funding.