the.com/cultural loss
a language dies every two weeks, and it takes a way of thinking about rain with it.
means the irreversible disappearance of a group's traditions, language, or knowledge because no one is left to carry them forward.
from anthropologists started tracking it seriously in the 20th century as colonization, migration, and globalization flattened local ways of life into fewer, louder dominant cultures.
languages dyingone every two weeks, unesco estimates
knowledge lostoften oral, never written down anywhere
not just wordsincludes recipes, songs, farming methods, medicine
can't reverse itonce last speaker dies, gone forever