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These days a lot of kids just speak English
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at least language is something we made up to communicate and two people not being able to is a failure, there's no analogy to species extinction in that regard.
Language and culture arguably can't be seperated. Language extinction is the loss of human cultural legacies. It's the assimilation of indigenous peoples. There's a reason language rights are often such a fraught political issue.
feel like there's a difference between what was deliberately done to indigenous people and a more gradual "common second language" thing going on.
I think it's a continuum. It's less stick and more carrot now, but also the last speakers of languages are dying. Kids don't necessarily understand the importance of learning their ancestral language when anglophonic pop culture seems more vibrant.