Abstract
Digitalization is a
very commonly problem and also an advantage for all the people around the
world. Spending a lot of time in front of the screen, has changed the
understanding of people, cultures and languages as it changes everything
through the process. All the communication systems especially education is
reconsidered through the needs of people. By the help of technology, people
interact with different kind of people facing different kind of culture; but
the lingua franca language English, has also become the language of digital
culture, so all the languages are affected by this language as the
globalization continues its effects through digital world. Yet the use of
mother tongue languages and the cultures with the effect of digitalization have
not been expired but transformed. In this article, the transformation process
of both written and spoken versions of mother tongue languages into new
inevitable digital language and the effects on cultures is examined by giving
examples from the world languages and Turkish.
