Tim Tyler  wrote in news:c16tv6$270f$1
{at}darwin.ediacara.org:

> Morris Carr?  wrote or quoted:
> 
>> Should language diversity count as biodiversity ?
>> What's the word of evolution theory on the matter ?
> 
> Languages count as part of human biodiversity.
> 
> "Bio" means "life" in Latin - and the diversity of
languages is
> indeed part of the diversity of life.

Tim is exactly right. And the tragedy is we are losing language diversity 
much faster than we are losing species diversity. In some cases the loss 
may be unimportant - the language is very similar to another, with no new 
concepts. In other cases the loss may forever eliminate a unique way of 
looking at the world. One doesn't want to get too sentimental - another 
asteroid impact could wipe out all of human history - but it wouldn't hurt 
to spend more time studying the many dying languages before they are gone 
forever.

Yours,

Bill Morse
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