Gilaki: An Endangered Language

In recent decades, language endangerment has become one of the most important challenges that linguists, sociologists and language programmers have taken on. For some reason, in this process, speakers of smaller or inferior language communities abandon the use of their heritage language and opt to shift to another language. This problem becomes noticeable when parents speak to their children only in the second language, so the intergenerational passing down of the language will gradually decline andprimordial cow in Bundahišn. This article attempts to explain the relation between the image of the creation of plants from the primordial cow’s organs and other examples of creation from a god or an androgynous goddess. It also discovers whether these two creation patterns are actually interdependent or not. Therefore, we attempt to analyze this relationship in the mentioned narratives by providing evidence from both cases and show that the role of cow in the Indo-European’s creation myths can be equal to the goddess’ role in other creation patterns of the world, man, earth and plants.