Why Do Languages Die?

The very existence of a modern nation-state, and the ideology it encompasses, is antithetical to linguistic diversity. It is predicated on the idea of one state, one nation, one people. National ties trump local ones in the eyes of the state. Free choice in association is disregarded entirely.

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