It feels to me a little bit like how geographic regions wind up working out dominant spoken/written languages. The guest languages are like relying on (human o

It feels to me a little bit like how geographic regions wind up working out dominant spoken/written languages. The guest languages are like relying on (human or machine) speech/writing translation services to communicate with folks who only know the local lingua franca. That added friction hobbles the minority languages. Perhaps AI will aid in greatly reducing these issues over time (and I say this because large language translation models and text to speech + speech to text are finally reaching professional human quality while running on local hardware today). But I can't think of any other good method to hold back the floodgates of people being forced to choose between their mother tongue (with its corpus of invaluable baked in stories and perspectives) and being understood by others.