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Minority Languages, a Cultural Legacy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Matthias Brenzinger
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Being professionally interested in African languages, there is no way in which we could try to hide our rather selfish motive in hoping for the survival of African languages, and as many as possible at that. The disappearance of any African language means to us scholars the final, irrecoverable loss of an important empirical resource, not only for linguistic studies, but also for studies on the history and culture of a people. Not many outside the academic circle, however, will have heartaches over such matters.

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Diogenes , Volume 41 , Issue 161 , March 1993, pp. 1 - 18
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Copyright © 1993 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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