Preserving a language?


How?

Put a few verbs and a couple of adjectives in a bottle of formaldehyde?

I think it is important to preserve languages even if there are evolution over time because language or a dialect of a language is tied to a culture.
I think it is important to preserve cultural diversity and preserve languages alongside its dialects and sub-dialects is a way to do so.

Each languages have dialects and sub-dialects.
For example among the dozen of English dialects there are British English and American English.
Among the dozen of sub-dialects of British English there are Received Pronunciation , Cockney and Mancunian.
Among the dozen of sub-dialects of American English there are General American , Inland Northern English and Western American English.

We lose time when we translate something in another language but languages are tied to ours cultures of humanity and work in any language contain reflect of a particular culture and this reflect is lose if done in another language and this is why it is important to keep work in original language.
If we suppress a language we eliminate a culture.
Learn a foreign language = Learn another culture that our and learn there are others ways to think.

Communicate with another person can be difficult if he / she doesn't know your language and you don't know his / her language.
You can have a language in common like English but you would have difficulty to communicate if this is not the mother tongue of this person or your because language are tied to a culture. Therefore you would do mistakes while communicating.
It does exist artificial languages to facilitate intercultural communications like Esperanto , Ido , IALA etc...

(January 3, 2020 at 11:17 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Or when people use croatian toponyms to suggest that well documented attempts at ethnic cleansing, in living memory, never happened.  To a person who participated in the conflict, no less.  That's definitely a problem, that's the rabbit hole op went down and mentions in his post....and is now blaming on dead languages.

Learning a language didn't do that to you, Flat.

Well, it didn't exactly do that to me, but it enabled that it happens to me that I come to the idea that ironic names prove that there is a conspiracy involved.

Diversity is pretty well necessary to stabilize any complex system. It's true of aquariums, and it's true of societies. A big part of any culture is encoded in the language. There's no stopping said current mass language-extinction, but IMO it'd be a real stretch to say that's a good thing.