Re:Cree#, a morphemic programming language with Cree keyword...
by Grieving on Sunday April 11, 2021 @08:26PM
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I'm not sure what you mean? You named a handful of languages that have survived, most of which are still in decline even if they still have substantial numbers of active speakers. The only one that seems possibly positioned to 'win out' in the long run is Guaraní, and even in Paraguay Spanish is steadily making inroads.
Re:Cree#, a morphemic programming language with Cree keyword...
by jariel on Sunday April 11, 2021 @08:14PM
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You've basically proved the point of the commenter you are responding to.
By your very own evidence - Spanish and Portuguese utterly dominate Central and South America.
There are 650M people there, if ~10% of the population speaks another language, that helps prove the case of 'language from more advanced languages win'.
Even where there is relative parity, systems definitely favour the language of the more powerful entity.
All over Europe there are 'niche languages' dying out, which is sad, but it's materially the case.
Go to Nice, France, and the street signs are in 'Nicoise' - not French. In Monaco if you listen carefully you can hear 'Monegasque'.
The decline of those languages is hinted at in the fact my spellchecker doesn't even recognize those words, unfortunately.
As a point of comparison, there are 2.9 million registered Native Americans, and 5.2 million people who check that box, sometimes along with others, on the latest census.