On the basis of this information it would be possible to argue that if everybody spoke English or Chinese or Esperanto for that matter everybody would be at war even more often.
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It happens all too often people regret that their language and culture are being lost but at the same time decide not to saddle their own children with the chore of preserving them.
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If two thousand five hundred languages are to be lost in the course of the twentyfirst century dont be in any doubt about what that means for us in each of those two thousand five hundreds cases a culture will be lost.
- Andrew Dalby