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

4 pointsby saikatsg2 tháng trước4 comments

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

4 comments

anenefan2 tháng trước

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.

yorwba2 tháng trước

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.

johncoltrane2 tháng trước

The world goes on.

jethronethro2 tháng trước

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