Ten Thousand Years
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Languages That Aren't Sure Bets
The oldest written texts go back to ancient samaria, about four thousand, 600 years ago. Beowulf wa gar dena written in old english is basically incomprehensible. Every language on the planet to day could be gone well before thousand years. And that's not even the halfway mark of our time fram so both tm a and tm b at the whip brain storming session realized pretty quickly that every language on the planets earth could be gone soon.
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