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Re:The State of the 7,168 Living Languages: 14% are dying by abdullahkhalids on Saturday January 27, 2024 @08:35PM (#39161691)
Small languages are dying because it's not economically viable for their communities to keep speaking them. But many large languages are also degrading, because of similar reasons.

Computing technology has a big part to play in this. It's still a huge pain to use RTL languages in many places. Bidi text is even worse. Keyboards, character sets and what not are still not standardized.

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Re:The State of the 7,168 Living Languages: 14% are dying by kanbara on Sunday January 28, 2024 @01:01AM (#39162978)
small languages have also died out because of colonialism, national identity laws, and a host of other factors.

i agree, though, that computing could be sooo great for these languages if we moved past weatern paradigms

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