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The death of a language. The word has the same kind of reluctant resonance as it has when we talk about the death of a person. And indeed, that's how it should be. For that's how it is. A language dies only when the last person who speaks it dies.

David Crystal

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Der Tod einer Sprache. Das Wort hat die gleiche Art widerwilliger Resonanz wie wenn wir über den Tod einer Person sprechen. Und so sollte es auch sein. Denn so ist es. Eine Sprache stirbt nur, wenn die letzte Person, die sie spricht, stirbt.

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