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To: Valin

Wonder how many languages were (inadvertently) destroyed by anthropologists traveling to "study" far-flung tribes.


12 posted on 01/02/2007 7:02:29 AM PST by P.O.E.
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To: P.O.E.
how many languages were (inadvertently) destroyed by anthropologists traveling to "study" far-flung tribes.

Many such languages have died as the speakers all succumbed to the diseases brought by the anthros. Others die due to their inability to naturally absorb words like "maytag" and "budlite"

37 posted on 01/03/2007 6:56:04 AM PST by ThanhPhero (di hanh huong den La Vang)
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