{"id":4800,"date":"2026-08-02T17:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=4800"},"modified":"2026-08-02T17:49:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:49:33","slug":"a-map-of-languages-dead-and-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=4800","title":{"rendered":"A Map of Languages, Dead and Dying"},"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:\/\/therumpus.net\/2026\/07\/31\/a-map-of-languages-dead-and-dying\/\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"A Map of Languages, Dead and Dying - The Rumpus\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/therumpus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/milad-fakurian-E8Ufcyxz514-unsplash-scaled.jpg?wsr\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">therumpus.net<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">A Map of Languages, Dead and Dying &#8211; The Rumpus<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">I sometimes wonder if this very search to understand my family\u2019s history, the context out of which I emerged, only feeds into this false sense of separateness. Perhaps it only doubles down on this \u201cus vs. them\u201d way of looking at the world, further entrenching the divides between us, based on the lie that we are somehow different from each other because we have this history or you have that one, we speak this language and you speak that one, we follow this set of customs and you follow that set of customs.<\/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":[3,6],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-4800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia","category-cultura","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800","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=4800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4801,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800\/revisions\/4801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}