Personally I believe that texting is driving language extinction.
First the multiculturalists want seprate languages, but then whine about language assimilation then push for a “One World Government” then whine that some languages are dying.....
They are Schizo...
Not so with Ebonics.
I don’t see why we should cry over the loss of minority languages.
[ While there’s certainly an upside to having everyone in the developed world speaking English and other “dominant” languages, I can’t help but think that the world is a poorer place without little ethnic enclaves with their own languages and customs. I hope that Frisian pulls through in a changing, internationalized world! ]
Languages ALWAYS die off, in the old days seprate tribes had different languages, as countries formed the more powerful tribes languages survived and other languages died. Languages are determined by the victor as well. Cumbersome unweildly languages die off and as a matter of fact unless the country using them is strong enough to keep the language alive.
“Lead author Tatsuya Amano, from the University of Babel, said...”
You no be dissin’ Ebonics, slick!!!
Why? We've got several serious situations, but this isn't one of them.
This is necessary to provide willing cadres who value primitivism, to replace the original natives who move to the cities and assimilate in order to improve their standards of living.
If we run out of anthropoligists, perhaps we could recruit from the Occupy crowd. They are already fond of drum cicles and lack of hygiene, and might leap at the chance to separate from the modern consumer society that they so detest. This would be a win-win solution.
Somehow, the world has managed to survive the loss of Yiddish, which was the native language of all four of my grandparents.