Why It’s Important To Save ‘Dying’ Languages

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A Tai Script manuscript preserved in the Department of Historical and Antiquarian Studies, Pan Bazaar, Guwahati. Image: Public domain.
‘Once a language dies, the knowledge dies with it.’

Every last word means another lost world.

Language, the code that allows us to communicate with one another, is the bedrock of knowledge, culture and identity. Embedded in a language are ideas, beliefs and practices that are trasnsmitted as knowledge from one generation to the other.



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