What Do We Lose When Languages Die?
"For one thing, there is the complex matter of why an indigenous community might choose to abandon its mother tongue for English (or Spanish or French or Portuguese, as the case may be). … [L]anguage death could be seen as just an extreme form of language change - a natural process that has been going on for thousands of years." Obit Mag 09/09/10

Posted September 9, 2010 07:48 PM