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Re:The Reason Some Hyperlocal Languages Survive by thaumasiotes on Monday February 11, 2019 @05:51AM (#19133496)
Endangered languages are considered to be dying out in a meaningful way, by losing their speakers.

All languages are equally "endangered", if you mean dying in the sense that Latin did, where it was and still is one of the most successful languages of all time.

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Re:The Reason Some Hyperlocal Languages Survive by bayesian_horse on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @07:06AM (#19142826)
Latin is not spoken natively anymore except for really rare special circumstances (much like Esperanto and Klingon have occasionally been taught/picked up by young children).
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Re:The Reason Some Hyperlocal Languages Survive by PavlikPaja on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @07:43AM (#19142998)
That is a useless definition, since all languages are constantly getting extinct that way.
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