Our awareness of language diversity is artificial. It only exists because of the same forces that are reducing it: modern communications and transportation. M

Our awareness of language diversity is artificial. It only exists because of the same forces that are reducing it: modern communications and transportation. Most languages will be fully understood by artificial intelligence soon enough. Anybody that wants to learn them 1000 years from now will be able to. And once we enhance our own brains with technology, people will be inventing new languages with ease. And integrating the unique features of old ones. There are probably millions of languages throughout the universe. We may not be the only species that uses language on Earth either. We are really just at the beginning of discovering language diversity.