In ancient times, when there were practically no communicative ties between individual nations, each of them had its own language of communication. With the unification of people in the state, the need arose to use a single means of communication on its territory - the state language. In this capacity, as a rule, the language was used in which the majority of the population spoke. Many languages of small nationalities began to disappear.
The reason for the disappearance of national languages was globalization, the disappearance of national characteristics and traditions, characteristic differences in the way of life. People who do not live in a closed, isolated group have to communicate with each other in some common language. Magazines and books are published in this language, television broadcasts are conducted and business communication is carried out. In this case, children learn at least two languages - common, state, and the one that the parents speak at home, in the family. After a generation or two, the practical need for the language spoken by the ancestors disappears and gradually another national language disappears - no one speaks it anymore. There are also economic reasons why it is easier to communicate between people in a single language. The use of different languages complicates international communication, which in this case requires a large staff of translators. If finding a translator for the world's largest languages is not a problem, then with the translation of small ones that have survived and are still in use today, it sometimes becomes simply insoluble. Institutes do not train specialists in all the languages that humanity uses today. Sometimes the reason for the disappearance of a language is not only assimilation, but also the physical disappearance of small nationalities that have not been able to adapt to modern living conditions. Be that as it may, population censuses show that the number of such nationalities, to which Russians identify themselves, is decreasing by several dozen each time. Linguists say that if the current rate of disappearance of national languages persists, then already in this century their number will decrease by 90%. When children stop teaching their native language, it goes into the stage of dying, but this process is reversible. As world practice shows, on the example of the revival of Hebrew or the Welsh language, if the necessary measures are taken in time, national languages can be revived. Moreover, many young people today demonstrate a desire to know their historical roots and the language spoken by their ancestors.
