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Originally Posted by peter12
I agree with you there. Look, I think actual preservation for a lot of these languages is an academic exercise at this point. Keep them alive as a specialist or cultural form of study.
If we are going to focus on any Indigenous language, it should be the Cree Algonquin family which actually has over 100,000 speakers in Canada.
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How the languages are preserved and used is a decision that should be up to the communities to whom the languages belong. It's not a matter for someone outside the community to decide whether or not their language is worth the effort of preserving.