More than half the world’s approximately 7,000 languages will have no speakers left in the coming decades. Some are working feverishly to preserve or maintain them. Others are asking: Why bother? John explains.
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Reviving Dead Languages
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Reviving Dead Languages
Bringing a language back to life is damned hard. So why resuscitate?
Apr 28, 2022
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