How interesting, Holly! I didn't know there were 6,500 languages in the world.
And that list describing the progression of characteristics telling that a language is dying... devastating.
Every morning on he subway, I see people reading newspapers and books in many different languages: Asian (I can't tell the difference between Asian languages when I see them in written form), Russian, Hebrew, Spanish, Polish—often all on the same stretch of bench.
And there I sit with my New York Times crossword puzzle.
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