Topic: Preservation of Endangered Languages
Country: Morocco
Delegate Name: Catherine Russell
School: Williamston High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Morocco position papers GLIMUN 2013 committees
Around the world, the preservation of endangered languages has been an issue. In fact, a recent study has proven that it is entirely likely that nearly half of the world's languages are to vanish completely within 100 years.It is known that many countries are making a dedicated effort to preserve the the languages that are in immediate danger of vanishing for good, by means of projects that they hope that can be enjoyed and spoken in many more generations. Languages like Latin and Gaelic are just two of may languages that are endangered, and trying to be saved.
Morocco, being a multi-langul society, also has concerns in preserving the treasures of the endangered languages. On the streets of this country, anyone could hear a great portion of people speaking languages such as French, Spanish, and Arabic. Sometimes you may also be able to hear, one of Morocco's official languages, Amazigh, unfortunately, this language is becoming heard less prominently than what it used to. This language is thought to be indigenous to our people and so, is now being taught in our schools so that children may learn it and pass it down to generations and generations to come. Morocco believes that this should set an example for the rest of the world, endangered languages, in multi-langul countries especially, should begin to, if not build on ideas of teaching dying languages in schools. For Morocco, languages are apart of our countries culture, if we lost just one of our languages, we would lose apart of our magnificent culture.
