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It seems that the “why” makes all the difference
In “Is language extinction a good thing?” Thomas Hawks reviews some recent writing on language extinction, focusing on differing attitudes to the question of how “bad” it really is when a language goes extinct. Languages are clearly fluid, dynamic things, … Continue reading