[Enchante]

"When we lose a language, we lose centuries of human thinking about time, seasons, sea creatures, reindeer, edible flowers, mathematics, landscapes, myths, music, the unknown and the everyday."

Oh, sure, and we all know about the momentous contributions to science and mathematics made by obscure tribal languages that no one ever heard of. Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein had completely the wrong approach, they should have become anthropologists to learn some mathematics from the most obscure tribes they could find.

[RobbyS]

I think all these languages should be collected, because the study of them will tell us something about the nature of language itself. Children seem to be wired for language, but each person developes his own. No two persons have exactly the same language. By imitation learn from those around us, and so we share much the same vocabulary and idiomatic speech structure—up to a point. But we can be sure that no two person’s thoughts. Anyway, if we collect enough data, we may eventually determine what the language of “Adam” is

[ConsistentLibertarian]

Nice :-)

Having more than one language has held back science and mathematics. In fact, God intended it that way.