I speak a minority language which is under threat. Language is more than a communication tool, and communication is much more than getting your message across.

I speak a minority language which is under threat. Language is more than a communication tool, and communication is much more than getting your message across. We tell stories and jokes, explain feelings and share joy and pain all through language. It's more than VC pitches! If my language goes, it takes with it centuries of poetry and literature. And the link it provides to the past, not just historically but in place it takes in the evolution of languages in this part of the world. I can see and understand the value in having a lingua franca, but the argument does miss the point that we're human before anything and our language is intertwined with that.