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They say that every fourteen days, a language dies. The statistic isn't alarming, after all there are supposedly seven thousand languages in the world. That a language dies every two weeks, is just a statistic. The concern comes with the knowledge that a language dies because it has been forgotten. Thus it dies without recognition, without farewell and without acknowledgment. It was merely there before, a communication bridge once upon a literary dream - now a  nothing.  This fascinating tool that we use to interact with our fellow human beings is lost. And we don't care.  The Eskimos, they say, had a hundred words for snow. That favourite p