When a language dies, the effect is more drastic than losing members who can conjugate the language's verbs.
When a language dies, it loses the history and culture of a population. There are definitely significant characteristics of a language. It describes the lifestyle and characters of individuals. The general characteristics of a population can be "felt" through the way the language is spoken, such as if the language is rough or smooth, fast or slow.
All these characteristics are lost if a language dies.
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