The Turkish government had banned Kurdish language in Turkey. Only due to pressure from EU, they have lifted the ban. So perhaps a generation of Kurds have grown up without knowledge of their language. Gaelic and Welsh seem to be museum pieces. Pali and Prakrit are lost. The language of the Indus valley is lost, thousands of dialects are already lost. Soon a time will come when the whole world speaks one of three or four languages.
The world may have lost more languages in the past millenium than is currently spoken today.
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