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Protecting endangered languages ultimately requires more than preserving words. It requires addressing the colonial structures that made some languages powerful and others vulnerable. Language justice is therefore inseparable from cultural survival, land rights, educational equality, political self-determination, and decolonization. | Protecting endangered languages ultimately requires more than preserving words. It requires addressing the colonial structures that made some languages powerful and others vulnerable. Language justice is therefore inseparable from cultural survival, land rights, educational equality, political self-determination, and decolonization. | ||
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