Posted on 02/05/2010 7:30:14 PM PST by rdl6989
That’s a beautiful beach.
That’s the funny thing about knowledge. When you loose some of it, you never know what you might have missed.
A language is, in essence, a human art form. If the Mona Lisa disappeared tomorrow, what loss would that bring? In concrete terms - nothing.
But not everything can be measured in dollars and cents or inches and pounds.
These dying languages are a link with our common human past and all efforts should be taken to record all of them and assure the information contained therein is available for future generations.
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