There are 7000 languages spoken around the world, but the tragic thing is that we are losing so much of this linguistic diversity. All the languages differ from one another in all kinds of ways such as vocabularies, intonations, structures, etc. Does the language we speak shaper the way we think? There was an example of an experiment from an aboriginal community in Australia. People in the aboriginal community live in Pompuraaw at Cape York has a dramatically different way of thinking about time and direction since they don’t have the expression “left” and “right”. In this Ted talk, the speaker “Lera Boroditsky” presents several examples of how languages shapes the way we think and the importance of language that creates and thinking differently. This video clip lead me to think about the importance of preserving endangered indigenous language in order to revitalize indigenous culture as well as their language.
TED. (2018, May 2).How language shapes the way we think | Lera Boroditsky. [Video]. YouTube. Retrieved June 18,2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKK7wGAYP6k&ab_channel=TEDTED