Why Save a Language? - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2014...
Dec 7, 2014
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"“TELL me, why should we care?” he asks."
- Maitani
"It’s a question I can expect whenever I do a lecture about the looming extinction of most of the world’s 6,000 languages, a great many of which are spoken by small groups of indigenous people. For some reason the question is almost always posed by a man seated in a row somewhere near the back."
- Maitani