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Every single time I think of all the lost languages of man that we will never know anything about, I cry a little.
We don't know anything about the language of the Old Sardinians other than that they probably gave us the island's name. We don't know ANYTHING about 99% of pre-Indo-European languages because they weren't literate and never wrote anything down. Could you even fathom how much culture has been entirely lost? How many heroes whose praises will never be sung again? How can one not mourn the loss?
I really hope that they crack Linear A one of these days. Thankfully we know(?) a lot more about it than any of the other examples I've given, but I'm still mourning the fact that for now, we are so close yet so far.
We don't know anything about the language of the Old Sardinians other than that they probably gave us the island's name. We don't know ANYTHING about 99% of pre-Indo-European languages because they weren't literate and never wrote anything down. Could you even fathom how much culture has been entirely lost? How many heroes whose praises will never be sung again? How can one not mourn the loss?
I really hope that they crack Linear A one of these days. Thankfully we know(?) a lot more about it than any of the other examples I've given, but I'm still mourning the fact that for now, we are so close yet so far.
