ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: Only Seven People in the World Speak this Kenyan Language

The Yaaku people, of Kenya’s Rift Valley, number only around 4,000. And only seven people, all over the age of 70, can speak the ethnic group’s native language, Yakunte, fluently.

As the number of Yakunte speakers has dwindled, various efforts have been made to save the language. Yakunte speakers and a Dutch researcher wrote a Yakunte dictionary in 2004. Advocates of the people established the Yaaku People Association in 2003, dedicated to preserving its culture. Recently, according to a BBC report, a local school funded by the French Cultural Group is holding language classes twice a month for young Yaaku.

Sound 15 Reasosn Why You should Get An Education

We got this informative reasons why you should pursue and strive to acquire an education at all cost no matter the mile you can go. At the least, if you're the disinterested one when it comes to education, we would encourage you read these reasons and that would help you count the cost of no having an educational background. 

Education goes beyond you knowing your A’s and B’s and C’s. There is difference between Literacy and Education. Literacy is knowing how to read and write. Education is to be able to reason, to use your ability to read and write to your benefit and to be able to gain your spectrum of knowledge by trying to surge deeper into the literate knowledge imparted to you.  

We’ve had debates innumerable about why is it important for every country to increase the literacy rates of its citizens, but is merely doing that enough? No, we do not need just literate citizens, but educated ones too. We do not want to be a group of people who can read and write but make nothing out of it. Wondering what education makes of us? It makes us human, a robot can read and write to, but reason?

 Here are reasons why education is extremely important.

15. Avoiding societal embarrassment

Do you know that the societal segments were based more on your education than economic worth, just economically better off could afford better education too. Women were the aliens of the already alienated because they weren’t seen as able to mingle in a society where reasoning happened. It is extremely important that you be at par with the knowledge database to be able to mingle in a certain societal setting without being made to feel embarrassed or an outcast. Education helps you broaden that spectrum of knowledge and hold your own mind and reason.

EDUCATION: Why is it Important??

Education will pay huge rewards for the rest of your life.

With more education, you're more likely to get a job you like, earn more money, and be satisfied with your life.

 

Think the main reason to further your education is to earn more money? Well, that's a great start! A better quality of life is another reason.

Besides earning more money, people who complete higher education usually experience much greater freedom in their working life. They:

• Can choose from a greater variety of careers
• Get to use skills they enjoy
• Have much more success at finding new jobs when needed

They are also more likely to own their home, have children and other family members who attend college, and be a role model in their communities. They are less likely to have serious struggles like long-term unemployment, poverty, and going to prison.

In this chart, see how earnings rise along with education levels, and how workers with less education experience more unemployment: