Languages

Should endangered languages be protected by governments?

For

They carry history and identity of people.

Against

Saving them is costly and not widely useful.

Anonymous excerpts, translated where noted.

For

  • Their loss erases more than just a language. It erases history.
    RedditOriginal language: English
  • our government(s) should be pouring a lot more funding into language preservation and revitalization.
    RedditOriginal language: English

Against

  • sometimes languages just die and it's okay.
    RedditOriginal language: English
  • The cost shall be the effort on the part of the people seeking to preserve that language.
    RedditOriginal language: English
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