Daniel Mayer wrote:
Thus helping to preserve an endangered language by
hosting an encyclopedia
in it also directly furthers our goal. This would not include non-famous
conlangs since those are largely original research.
This would be an argument for having good articles like [[en:Hopi
language]] (and the equivalents in de:, ja:, zh:, fr:, etc.) --
information about languages written in a language that people can read.
Merely preserving a language that nobody reads by writing an
encyclopedia that nobody reads in it isn't really furthing the goal of
disseminating information to people.
A great deal of information and cultural heritage is contained in the language
itself. This goes way beyond what any set of articles in other languages can
ever hope to accomplish.
-- mav
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