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From: smryan@netcom.com (Artie Choke)
Subject: Re: Language Extinction
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: From the standpoint of linguistics, it seems terrible to lose more and more
: languages, because then we have correspondingly less and less insight into
: the possible diversity of human language.  In this sense, perhaps the goal

From the standpoint of linguistics, the loss of languages, if it
actually occurs, it may be a matter of study in itself.
