The Bast Language Is Not in Ordinary Daily Use

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In the bask country, for example, just about 376 thousand or so people of the two point one million population have it as their first language. In irish you might have almost a third of the population saying that they can speak it. Lean: What would it take to bring back languages are not in ordinary daily use?

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