700 Reasons: Reason #323

Reason: 323
It is language that unifies everything, linking environmental practice with cultural knowledge, and transmitting everything synchronically among the members of a community, as well as diachronically between generations
Reference:
Crystal, D. (2000) Language Death (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
Related Keywords:
Culture, Historical dimension, Knowledge, Social cohesion, Sustainability

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