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Daniel Everett: “Endangered languages, lost knowledge and the future” [LongNow.org seminars]
Some 40 percent of the world’s 6,912 known languages are endangered, says Everett, and that endangers science. When we lose a language, we lose a whole way of life, a whole set of solutions to problems, a whole classification system and body of knowledge about the natural world, a whole calendar system, a whole complex of myths, folktales, and songs.
