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Is It Important To Save Dying Languages? (Of Course, But Not For The Reasons You Think)

WORDS Posted: December 9, 2014 5:54 am

“Certainly, a culture can thrive without its own language: No one would tell today’s American Indians that if they no longer spoke their ancestral language it would render them non-Indian. Likewise, being Jewish does not require speaking Hebrew or Yiddish. Yet because language is so central to being human, to have a language used only with certain other people is a powerful tool for connection and a sense of community.”

WORDS Published: 12.05.14

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 12.05.14

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