Find out what you can about endangered languages.
What can be done about languages disappearing as the speakers of them die? Should anything be done? Should people accept language loss as an inevitability? It is useful to study or preserve endangered languages in some way, or should linguists focus their interests on currently spoken languages?
One of the more interesting theories is that languages currently spoken on a wider scale - so not thought of as endangered - could quickly become endangered, perhaps within a generation or two, thanks to globalisation interacting with government education policy.
People always get in the way, no matter what policies are implemented. What about the last two speakers of the endangered language who fell out, and are now not talking to each other?
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