Explain one specific element of culture that is lost when languages such as the kallawaya die out

We lose memory of the planet’s many histories and cultures and we lose the expression of a unique vision of what it means to be human

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The effects of that language loss could be culturally devastating. Each language is a key that can unlock local knowledge about medicinal secrets, ecological wisdom, weather and climate patterns, spiritual attitudes and artistic and mythological histories. Some of those, like words for different kinds of wind, are disappearing before linguists get the chance to explore them. And that disappearance has broader implications for the understanding of how humans process language. There’s a lot we don’t know about how it works, or how the mind works when it does this.

chapters are in the book (this fleeting world)

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