The advantageous European expanding colonial systems have empowered the competing economic systems out of business for the last two centuries. Due to the increasingly harsh conditions on the marginalized lands, the natives can not resist the urge of the new socio-economic world order. Today, this distinction is proof that English and other colonial languages are indeed killer languages, destroying identity and limiting human diversity. This has a tremendous impact on the culture and traditions of each society as it restricts the cultures individuality by imposing a rise of new customs and beliefs.
Another factor largely responsible for the endangerment of language is urbanization. Language is claimed to be a spoken art that tends to evolve with time. It is debated that parents must encourage their children to learn dominant languages to better aid them for a successful education and career so that children can experience life and remember childhood in a dominant language to be able to fit into the modern world. During the next 100 years, the dominant languages are estimated to overtake the endangered minority languages at an alarming rate. Even though this shift is perceived as means of a survival strategy; however, it is solely based on economic gain. Speakers make a conscious choice to give up their heritage language, if not a deliberate one. Swaan (2001) even dramatizes this process by referring to some populations as "stampeding from their language" for an alternative with a higher "Q-value," as if speakers collectively decided to shift suddenly to another language by consulting with each other. In regard to urbanization, a language carries the cultural heritage of its speakers. When the speakers of a language die, all traces of the language dies with them. An example is the last speaker of "Bo" one of the 10 Great Andamanese languages on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands was Boa Sr, who died at the age of 85.