Сочинение «A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is ignorant of his own»

«A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is ignorant of his own»

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As we know there are a great variety of languages in the world, which were spoken in he past, which are spoken now and which will be spoken in the future. As we are students of linguistic university we must understand the importance of learning any language and what is more it is does not matter whether it is your mother tongue or it is a foreign language.

I should say that many scientists claimed that learning a language brings about permanent changes to our brain. Moreover we can say that speaking another language is becoming another person. Anyone who has learned to speak another language moderately well will have had the sensation of discovering a new personality with new facial expressions and gestures to match.

Unfortunately lots of them died, not less are on their last legs. And what most of us lose when a language dies is the possibility of a unique way of perceiving and describing the world.

I can give a lot of examples of endangered languages, but I want to tell you about the Ubykhsskiy one, because it has more parallels with Circassian both phonetically and morphologically.

It was a mother tongue of the Ubykhs before the beginning of 90-s of 20 century. The initial place of spread is the area of Black sea near Sochi. In 19 century after the Circassian War the Ubykhs