700 Reasons: Reason #185
- Reason: 185
- Differences in the way languages use grammar are always illuminating, especially those which help to quash the myth of primitiveness in indigenous languages. There are many languages which provide ways of expressing an area of experience that actually offer more points of contrastivity than are available in languages like English or French
- Reference:
- Crystal, D. (2000) Language Death (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
- Related Keywords:
- Diversity, Less Widely Used and Lesser Taught (LWULT) Languages, Linguistics, Uniqueness
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