本文探讨了近一个世纪以来世界上许多语言的发展历程及其现状 ,特别是探讨了人类进入信息和网络时代以来 ,在英语等大语种的冲击下 ,大批使用人数很少的小语种逐渐成为濒危语言的不利境遇 ,而这些语言的最终消亡将导致它们作为其载体的文化的消亡。文章提出了一个值得深思的问题 :人类生态环境的破坏导致了部分濒危生物物种的死亡 ,为此人类发出了保护生物多样性的呼吁。这当然无可指责 ,但是为什么许多人对大批濒危语言的消亡却熟视无睹呢 ?文章认为 ,语言与文化多样性的消失对文化生态环境的破坏与生物多样性的消失对生态环境造成的破坏一样可怕。为此 ,应该像保护秃鹫、大熊猫和白鳍豚等珍稀生物物种那样保护那些濒危语言 This article explores the history of the development of many languages ​​in the world in the recent century and its current situation. In particular, since the era of human information and Internet access, the impact of large languages ​​such as English has led to the gradual endangerment of large numbers of small languages The unfavorable conditions of language, and the eventual demise of these languages, will lead to the demise of their culture as their carrier. The article put forward a question worth pondering: the destruction of human ecological environment led to the death of some endangered species, for which human beings have called for the protection of biodiversity. This is of course beyond reproach, but why many people turn a blind eye to the demise of a large number of endangered languages? The article argues that the loss of cultural and ecological environment as a result of the loss of linguistic and cultural diversity is as daunting as the loss of biodiversity to the ecological environment . To that end, those endangered languages ​​should be protected as rare biological species like vultures, giant pandas, and dolphins