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Half the world's population is going away so yeah
Gurl the world's population has been growing for hundreds of years and is still growing 🤦♂️ It is expected to peak at around 10 billion people.
The loss of human languages is a direct result of colonialism + nationalism, which go hand in hand. People that want to unite a region under one government push for only a single language to be used in that region. Italy and China are prominent examples of this. The natural linguistic diversity of the region is decimated to grow a monoculture.
Language loss is largely unrelated to people dying. Indigenous people live on, just without their languages, as they adopt the languages of their colonizers. This is very common across the world.
When a language dies in a community, the transmission of that community's culture is heavily impacted. Monolingual elders can no longer communicate (or communicate well) with younger generations, and the words in other languages do not capture the same nuances and connections as the words in their native language. The death of a language quickens the death of a culture, and that in turn quickens the death of indigenous knowledge systems.
The different languages of humanity -- our different ways of speaking, thinking, and being human -- are treasures. They show us other ways of treating each other, other ways of organizing society, other ways of experiencing beauty and fear and anger. They show us that the world is broader than our narrow lens. We can never really escape the lens of our native language and culture, but we can step out of it for a while. And in doing so, we gain a greater perspective on what it means to be human.
Gurl the world won't reach 10bil with the vast majority of countries falling below replacement rate
We can't blame colonialism for everything lol
People stop speaking languages and they die out.
IMO the world would be a better place if everyone was on the same language