What happens when we lose a language?

(theguardian.com)

4 points | by saikatsg 14 hours ago ago

3 comments

  • anenefan 9 hours ago

    Part of cultural history and insight into their daily lives might be lost, but one of the things LLMs should be good at is preserving and enabling the teaching of the language to anyone who may find they need to speak it at a later date.

    I'm surprised Ubykh wasn't better documented or recorded since 1992 is fairly recent for a language to die out.

  • johncoltrane 14 hours ago

    The world goes on.

    • jethronethro 13 hours ago

      Indeed. And most of us don't notice either.