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Historically Speaking

Twenty Thousand Hertz

CHAPTER

The Loss of Language

In many cases, the loss of language is an unfortunate consequence of globalization. But sometimes it can be a little more sinister. A lot of languages that have no written record because there would be neural languages. Once it's lost and everyone's dead and it was pre-recordings, you don't even know what is gone. Since the language we speak defines our self-identity and our cultural identity, suppression of a language can mean a direct suppression of a cultural group.

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