> First, archive -- record the language, its linguistic structure & features for science's and posterity's sake. All other issues with your post aside, this is

> First, archive -- record the language, its linguistic structure & features for science's and posterity's sake. All other issues with your post aside, this is not a thing that we can do. The subtleties of a real language that real people speak can neither be fully deduced from recording it nor is it likely that it can be archived in a way that actually preserves most of the things that make it interesting (that is, the methods available to us for encoding a language encode the words and grammatical rules, and very often lose many of the meaningful components). That is, we cannot successfully archive these languages. How does this fact impact your thesis?