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David Harrison on the scarcity of language

There are 7,000 languages spoken in the world. This, argues linguist K David Harrison, represents the greatest repository of human knowledge ever assembled – but it’s rapidly eroding, and this will be terrible. We’re not only losing information, but we’re losing ways of understanding the world.



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