Why Do Languages Die? (mises.org)
- Highlight Loc. 112-14 | Added on Wednesday, January 11, 2012, 12:28 AM
As Greene points out, for example, By one estimate, just 2 or 3 percent of newly minted "Italians" spoke Italian at home when Italy was unified in the 1860s. Some Italian dialects were as different from one another as modern Italian is from modern Spanish.[12]
