700 Reasons: Reason #189
- Reason: 189
- Faced with the likelihood of losing half of the world’s languages within the next century, and of the distinct possibility of a world with only one language in it a few hundred years hence, it is this generation which needs to make the decisions
- Reference:
- Crystal, D. (2000) Language Death (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
- Related Keywords:
- Diversity, Less Widely Used and Lesser Taught (LWULT) Languages, Sustainability, Values
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