Dying Breed

A while ago I was reading about how due to rapid globalization, a lot of languages and dialects were going extinct. Dominant languages are assimilating these lesser used languages, before anyone has the chance to document them. This means that languages that have existed for who knows how long will no longer be used and no one will have any record of them.

I'm part of this dying breed. My family comes from Guangdong province (same place as Dr. Sun Yat-Sen) from where my parents were from they all spoke a dialect of Cantonese. I've been told it sounds like Vietnamese, and a lot of Cantonese speaking people don't understand when I speak it. But it has the craziest name: (direct translation) Dragon Blade. City name where parents are from: (again direct translation) Middle Mountain. I kid you not, direct translation word for word my parents speak Dragon Blade and they're from Middle Mountain.

Not many people speak Dragon Blade, and not everyone from Middle Mountain speaks Dragon Blade, most of them speak Cantonese. Considering the amount of people that immigrate to Canada I'd say Dragon Blade speakers make up less then 1% of the Vancouver population (rough estimate based on no statistical evidence).

Dragon Blade isn't a pleasant sounding language, it's actually kind of rude sounding, but its got to have the coolest name out of any language ever.

I'm picturing something like this:

Or like this:

Maybe my translations wrong? Whatever. My cousins, who's parents all speak Dragon Blade, haven't been taught the language because my aunts and uncles all want them to speak the mainstream language. I have nothing against that, but it's sad to know that me and my sisters are probably the last generation to speak the Dragon Blade. Last of a dying breed.