Loss of Primordial Language and the Future of National Languages

The modern world, to the extent that it disassociates us from the secular traditional world, from the "e;primordial"e; jobs and words that support the cultural particularity forged over the centuries, weakens the borders between languages. Neologisms bring languages closer together irreversibly, and the loss of primordial words (the local ways of designating a plant or a bird, the words that desig...