{"id":4766,"date":"2026-08-02T17:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=4766"},"modified":"2026-08-02T17:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:30:06","slug":"the-mass-extinction-of-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=4766","title":{"rendered":"The mass extinction of languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2026\/07\/27\/the-mass-extinction-of-languages\/\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"The mass extinction of languages\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/pharyngula\/wp-content\/themes\/ftb2-theme\/images\/logo.gif\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">freethoughtblogs.com<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">The mass extinction of languages<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">My university offers courses in several languages with a relatively tiny population base, like Anishinaabe, the language of the indigenous peoples of the upper Midwest. I\u2019m sometimes, but not\u2026<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-4766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultura","category-educacion","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4767,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions\/4767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}