Hangzhouhua (杭州话)：use it or lose itThere are about 6.000 languages in the world and some e

Hangzhouhua (杭州话)：use it or lose it
There are about 6.000 languages in the world and some experts say that as many as half of these languages will disappear(消失) in the next one hundred years. Will Hangzhouhua be one of 1)    ? It’s a 2)     that more people are asking.
In China, Putonghua is the official language. That 3)     it’s the language of government, business and the media (媒体). And it’s also the language that is 4)     in schools.
Hangzhou is a special city. It used to be the capital of Wu and Yue States in the 10th century during the Five Dynasties period. Now it is modern, fashionable and also beautiful. And Hangzhouhua shows that by being modern, fashionable and beautiful.
Young people still speak Hangzhouhua but not as 5)     as their parents and grandparents. They are under more and more pressure to speak Putonghua. So the language is being used 6)     often in everyday life. Some people want to keep the language from disappearing pletely 7)     building museums and having cultural festivals to save it. But a language isn’t a painting 8)     a book. It’s a living thing and you 9)     use it or lose it.
If people 10)     using it in their daily lives, a museum or a festival will not help. It will be lost forever, like the Yangtze River dolphin.them