"It is not necessary to argue that language diversity caused the evolutionary success of humans. We need only recognize that the knowledge generated by all those successfully adapting cultural groups over the millennia is stored in all those thousands of languages now spoken around the world."
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"Language Preservation and Publishing" in Indigenous Literacies in the Americas (Contributions to the Sociology of Language), Nancy Hornberger Ed. , Mouton de Gruyter (1996)
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