So,smaller cultures lose their local language as the language of the culture in power becomes the stronger influence.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

So they could just still live in their villages and out in the country and do their farming and speak their own local language.

他们仍旧可以住在乡下村庄,田间耕种，说当地语。

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Or,a local language might disappear more slowly.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

"If you're a poor shopkeeper living in a very impoverished part of Botswana and you're trying to feed your family, trying to buy and sell goods, trying to get medical services for your kids or your employees, and you speak a local language, there's nothing on today's Web that's going to help you,right?

VOA: special.2010.11.08

Fambul Tok,or Family Talk in the local Krio language, draws from traditional mediation and conflict resolution methods.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07