• happyandhappy [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    youve got a lot of spunk for somebody who doesnt really know what they are talking about. China has 56 recognized and protected ethnic minority groups where scholars are creating alphabets for minority languages that had not been previously written as a way to preserve their languages. How many indigenous people in the US and Hawaii can even say that they speak their language after having had them systematically destroyed for decades?

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Hint: it’s like 2%, and the death of every one of the precious few elders who still fluently speak these languages is an incalculable and irrevocable loss.