NATIONAL LANGUAGES AND SCIENTIFIC-TECHNICAL PROGRESS: WHAT LANGUAGES WILL OUR DESCENDANTS SPEAK?
The author considers new tendencies in national languages development during globalization epoch, reveals the connection between socio-cultural and socio-linguistic changes and swift distribution of modern information technologies and pays special attention to the necessity of taking measures on languages protection from the destructive factors accompanying globalization process with the purpose of language variety preservation in the world and guaranteeing nations cultural traditions continuity.