Small languages are dying because it's not economically viable for their communities to keep speaking them. But many large languages are also degrading, because of similar reasons.
Computing technology has a big part to play in this. It's still a huge pain to use RTL languages in many places. Bidi text is even worse. Keyboards, character sets and what not are still not standardized.
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Small languages are dying because it's not economically viable for their communities to keep speaking them. But many large languages are also degrading, because of similar reasons.
Computing technology has a big part to play in this. It's still a huge pain to use RTL languages in many places. Bidi text is even worse. Keyboards, character sets and what not are still not standardized.
small languages have also died out because of colonialism, national identity laws, and a host of other factors.
i agree, though, that computing could be sooo great for these languages if we moved past weatern paradigms