[鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma]|[alt: 黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui]@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 8 days agoAssuming humanity last another few hundred years; How many human languages do you think are gonna be left in 100 years? In 200 years?message-squaremessage-square36linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareAssuming humanity last another few hundred years; How many human languages do you think are gonna be left in 100 years? In 200 years?[鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma]|[alt: 黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui]@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 8 days agomessage-square36linkfedilink
minus-squaregmtom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 days agoI think people are over estimating how long 100 years is. No languages that are currently spoken by more than a couple thousand people are going to go extinct that quickly. Remember 100 years is in the upper end of a human life span.
minus-squareHolytimes@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 days agoYou underestimate how tiny the vast majority of languages are and how few speaks them.
minus-squaregmtom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 days agoI don’t actually, hence why I stipulated more than a few thousand speakers
I think people are over estimating how long 100 years is.
No languages that are currently spoken by more than a couple thousand people are going to go extinct that quickly.
Remember 100 years is in the upper end of a human life span.
You underestimate how tiny the vast majority of languages are and how few speaks them.
I don’t actually, hence why I stipulated more than a few thousand speakers