There are around 7,000 languages spoken in the world, but that number is shrinking. Unesco estimates that half could disappear by the end of the century. So how are languages lost, and what does that…

There are around 7,000 languages spoken in the world, but that number is shrinking. Unesco estimates that half could disappear by the end of the century. So how are languages lost, and what does that mean for the people who speak them?

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    4 days ago

    We should do what we can now to persevere these languages for future generations to look back on. We also shouldn’t force communities to be stuck with a language that cannot change or adapt to the world that is changing around it.

    The only dead language of any use is latin, and who said anything about violence?

    My point is there is no such thing as a preserved language only a living or dead one.

    Instead we need to let it evolve as naturally as we can.

    The thing I am screaming into the void is that we are letting nothing evolve, we are in a mass extinction.