[鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma]|[alt: 黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui]@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 3 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-square38linkfedilinkarrow-up173arrow-down13
arrow-up170arrow-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 · 3 days agomessage-square38linkfedilink
minus-squaregmtom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·3 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-up3arrow-down1·2 days agoYou underestimate how tiny the vast majority of languages are and how few speaks them.
minus-squaregmtom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day 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