ELL: article from ABC on endangered languages

Wed Apr 10 16:32:24 UTC 2002

>...
>Linguists and Native Speakers Fight to Preserve Dying Languages
>Scores of Languages Just Disappearing...

The above isn't true. If languages were 'just disappearing', the result
would be TOTAL SILENCE. They aren't 'just disappearing', but being 'erased
and replaced'.
mg

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