Of course we should care that languages die out. Language is an invention of a particular culture. It’s how a culture assigns meaning to the world around it, how a culture defines and constructs the world around it. If we lose a language we lose a large aspect of how that culture lived.
Languages also preserve a culture’s history, or how they developed. In America, vernacular is changing all the time. France has a regulated language, and they have only so many words. They drop some, or pick some up. Language helps us understand the process in which a culture grew, and according to the Language Out Of Time article, how they understood the world. All I’m saying is, let the whales save themselves.
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