For
They carry history and identity of people.
Against
Saving them is costly and not widely useful.
Anonymous excerpts, translated where noted.
“Their loss erases more than just a language. It erases history.”
“our government(s) should be pouring a lot more funding into language preservation and revitalization.”
“sometimes languages just die and it's okay.”
“The cost shall be the effort on the part of the people seeking to preserve that language.”