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Instead of fighting to invent new languages we should fight to preserve indigenous languages.
When an indigenous language disappears so does often the knowledge that it was used to describe:
Medicinal knowledge vanishes as Indigenous languages die - Science.org
With over 40 languages disappearing every day, learning local dialects can help create loan words that broadens our understanding of the world.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/16/linguists-language-culture-loss-end-of-century-sea-levels-rise