Today it is estimated that the world loses a language every two weeks. Linguists have predicted that between 50 and 90% of the world’s 6,000 or so languages will go extinct in the coming century. For even a fraction of these to survive, we’re going to have to start thinking of smaller languages not as endangered species worth saving, but as equals worth learning.
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hosh (hosh@hub.disroot.org)'s status on Monday, 13-Aug-2018 03:04:19 EDT hosh
Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet