Citation: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/TechandScience/Story/STIStory_813454.html
If we hear the word "dying languages", most of us are likely to come up with primitive tribes' languages in rural areas. Surely, it can be true for most of the dying 'languages' But, in Japan, when it comes to dying dialects, they could be found around us.
More and more Japanese all over Japan usually speak 'Tokyo-Ben', which has been spoken in Greater Tokyo area for over 100 years. It is mainly because developing information society let provincials get more instant access to latest cultures in Tokyo, and they feel their cultures are out of date or ashaming. Then, they began to imitate Tokyo's fashion. Changing of dialects are one of the most clear examples.
As a result, it became difficult to find out provincial young men who have good commands of local dialects.
But, extremely few people seems to be concerned with this problem. I wonder Google considers dying dialects as this.
