{"id":6448,"date":"2018-11-01T15:18:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T15:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utalk.com\/news\/?p=6448"},"modified":"2018-11-01T15:18:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T15:18:45","slug":"languages-are-our-heart-and-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/languages-are-our-heart-and-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Languages are our heart and soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Languages say something about our culture and our soul, according to uTalk&#8217;s language guru (pictured).<\/h4>\n<h4>Which is why Brian Loo Soon Hua, who knows upwards of eight languages, is worried about the number of endangered languages on the verge of becoming extinct.<\/h4>\n<h4>&#8216;Languages are going extinct and regional differences are slowly dying out,&#8217; he says. People are thinking more and more alike. If language equals our culture then we&#8217;re becoming more homogenised, uniform&#8217;.<\/h4>\n<h4>&#8216;It&#8217;s good on one hand because people are connecting across borders. But we&#8217;ll lose some of the creativity, soul and the idiosyncrasies that make humans human,&#8217; he adds.<\/h4>\n<h4>uTalk supports minority as well as mainstream languages and, out of its 141 languages, more than ten are classed as endangered or vulnerable.<\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/376791_10150371178253192_225488996_n.jpg\" alt=\"376791_10150371178253192_225488996_n\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/376791_10150371178253192_225488996_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/376791_10150371178253192_225488996_n-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/376791_10150371178253192_225488996_n-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/376791_10150371178253192_225488996_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/376791_10150371178253192_225488996_n-120x90.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Languages say something about our culture and our soul, according to uTalk&#8217;s language guru (pictured). Which is why Brian Loo Soon Hua, who knows upwards of eight languages, is worried about the number of endangered languages on the verge of becoming extinct. &#8216;Languages are going extinct and regional differences are slowly dying out,&#8217; he says. &#8230; <a title=\"Languages are our heart and soul\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/languages-are-our-heart-and-soul\/\" aria-label=\"More on Languages are our heart and soul\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,51,794],"tags":[52,265],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}