Are there any ethnicities/languages that you love that are dying?

>>2099899
German
Swedish
Japanese

>>2099920
I don't mean in decline, I mean on their deathbed.

>>2099899
tell me more

>>2099971
Low German, a closer relative to English than most Germanic languages much like Dutch, is being phased out due to standardized German which takes mostly from High German rather than Low.

The language of the Saxons (which is where my family comes from, so muh heritage I guess) and that of the State of Teutonic Order is dying and has maybe 10 million speakers.

>>2099899
as a Frisian watching your own language disappear with the standard Dutch is painful as fuck. litteraly teens half my age don't even speak it anymore.

>>2099994
Friscian is wonderful, it's almost what English without French influence would look like, wouldn't it?

>>2099899
>Pirahã language
>language so basic it baffled experts
>native speaker couldn't even grasp the concept of numbers or colors
>could have possibly shed light into the remote past of human language
>Brazilian government decides to go full huehue, builds a school in the fucking jungle where these people lived, language corrupted to the point it's impossible to study its primitive features anymore
Pretty rage worthy.

>>2099998
I've always looked at it as a proto-Dutch language due to it being West Germanic. So your prob right it's close to English without Norman interference

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>>2099983
>tfw I (as a Dutch guy) can read 14th century Low German better than most Germans.

>Hir bevoren in den olden yaren, eer der tyd, dat god vorlözede dat mynschlyke geslechte, eer vnse here Cristus, ware god vnde mynsche, leet in der mynscheyt den bytteren doet vnde stunt wedder vp van deme dode vnde stech vp bouen alle hemmele vnde wert wedder komende to deme rechten gherychte, vor desser tyd der ghebord Cristi vyndetmen, dat dar syn ghewest vele naturlyke wyse mans, de vthvorkören vnde leff hadden wyßheyt vnde kunste, de men nomede phylozophy, dat in vnser sprake so vele is ghesecht alze leffhebbers der wyßheyt vnde der kunst. Men heeth ok etlyke van en poeten, dat is dychters efte tohopesetters hystoryen vnde gheschychte efte ok bysproke efte fabelen. Etlyke van dessen lereden deme volke dögede vnde wyßheyt vnde setteden ere lere slycht in böke vnde in schrift. Etlyke andere syn ghewest, de hebben ere lere vns naghelaten vnde de ghesath in verse vnde in bysproke vnde in fabelen, vp dat men ere lere vnde ören vlyd des to beth dar by scholde beholden. Manckt dessen is eyn ghewest, de to nutte vnde lere der mynschen gheschreuen heft eyne hystorye vnde fabele van Reynken deme vosse, de seer ghenoechlik is to lesen vnde to horen, vnde is ok vul van wyßheyt vnde guder exempel vnde lere. Desses suluen poeten lere to lesen vnde nicht to vorstaen enbrochte neen nutte efte vromen. Hir vmme, dat men en moghe lesen vnde ok vorstaen, ick Hinrek van Alckmer, scholemester vnde tuchtlerer des eddelen, dogent ken vorsten vnde heren hertogen van Lotryngen, vmme bede wyllen mynes gnedyghen heren, hebbe dyt yeghenwerdyge boek vth walscher vnde franßösescher sprake ghesocht vnde vmmeghesath in dudesche sprake to dem loue vnde to der ere godes vnde to heylsamer lere der, de hir ynne lesen, vnde hebbe dyt sulue boek ghedeelet in veer part vnde hebbe by...

>>2100035
Fascinating how much closer this sounds to old English and especially dutch

>>2100069
I am pretty sure Medieval Dutch people could speak their own language and be understood in places like Lubeck and Riga.

>Alse de konnynck myt synen ghenoten
Dessen rad so hadde ghesloten,
Dat Hyntze de reyse scholde wagen
Vnde to Reynken de bodeschop dragen,
He sprack to Hyntzen: »merket dyt recht,
Wat desse heren hebben ghesecht.
Ghaet vnde segget Reynken alzo,
Desse heren beden eme to:
Schalmen em daghen dryddewerff
Dat schal em syn eyn ewych vorderff,
Em vnde ok al syneme slechte.
Wyl he, he mach dyt merken rechte.
Al deyt he anderen deren quad,
Jodoch horet he gherne yuwen rad.

>>2100084
To contrast, here is some middle Dutch

Dat ghi ons secht die waerheit al
Openbare, ende brinct voort,
Of ghi weet van enegher moort
Of eenen mordeliken raet,
Die jeghen minen heere gaet;
Dat laet hier openbare horen!'
Nu hoer, hoe Reynaert sal verdoren
Den coninc entie coninghinne,
Ende hi bewerven sal met zinne
Des coninx vrienscap ende sine hulde,
Ende hi buten haerrre sculde
Brune ende Ysingrijn beede
Up hief in groter onghereede,
Ende in veetten ende in ongheval
Jeghen den coninc bringhen sal.
Die heereniet, die nu waren so fier,
Datsi Reynaerde waenden bier

>>2099944
Breton is not yet on its deathbed but is entering meme tier in Brittany.

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>>2099998
The English version is mostly Germanic, the only French words are trespass, temptation, deliver, power, and glory and they still don't really look anything alike.