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From: smryan@netcom.com (Artie Choke)
Subject: Re: Language Extinction
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: Am I the only one on the net with heart so hard as to be unmoved by
: the plight of languages facing extinction?

No.

Trying to save a language is not linguistics, but a desire to
maintain a cultural identity, which is politics.
