What happens when we lose a language?(theguardian.com)

4 pointsby saikatsgil y a 2 mois4 comments

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/10/what-happens-when-we-lose-a-language

4 comments

anenefanil y a 2 mois

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.

yorwbail y a 2 mois

Linguists had been intensively studying Ubykh for decades by the time the last speaker died. It's rather well-documented for a language with few speakers.

johncoltraneil y a 2 mois

The world goes on.

jethronethroil y a 2 mois

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