We understand that when a species goes extinct, we lose a unique thread in the web of life. But we rarely feel the same urgency when a language disappears, even though the loss is just as profound and irreversible. This disconnect is a critical blind spot in our fight for a sustainable planet.
The crisis of language extinction is not separate from the ecological crisis; they are two sides of the same coin.
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