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Historically Speaking: How language & accent shape your brain
Twenty Thousand Hertz
The Loss of Language
The English language is still spoken by two billion people, more than a quarter of the world's population. While the British were bringing home new words, they were also leaving their own language behind. I think it's an extremely interesting language, but it's also very problematic because it has linguistically colonized so much of the world and wiped out a lot of languages whilst doing it. The tragic thing is we probably won't even realize they're gone.
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