I watch TED... 700 plus talks about almost everything. Today was a day for talks about the loss of languages of people. I cannot describe the beauty of the talk or the tradegy of the outcome, only to say that perhaps half of the languages are gone due to globalization. What that means is the culture of these people is gone also. For wrapped inside the language is the life blood of the culture itself. the knowledge and history that the people are, represented by their language.
When the last speaker of a language dies, so does the culture it represented.
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