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>One thing is that we probably won't lose any languages anymore. There will be plenty of books, texts and videos in the Internet, so everyone who will want to l
by fluoridation 3y ago
>One thing is that we probably won't lose any languages anymore. There will be plenty of books, texts and videos in the Internet, so everyone who will want to learn his mother language, can do it.
People don't learn their mother tongues from books, they learn it from their parents. Languages begin to die out not when people can no longer learn them, but when their native speakers cease to find it useful, because a larger culture has assimilated them and they get more out of using the majority language instead.
Consider a future when a Spaniard spends most of their day talking in English to people online, and everyone else they talk to also does the same. There's an inflection point at which everyone just decides to speak in English all the time.