Language extinctions differ in global impact but share equal human tragedy

Evidence

Not every disappearance, however, is equivalent. The fact that French-Ontarians are gradually ceasing to speak French will not cause the latter to vanish from the world panorama. Creole is not in the same situation because its elision in one single region would rnake the areas of its survival even more scarce. But establishing that these differences exist in no way attenuates both the human drama unleashed each time it happens and the extent of impoverishment then inflicted upon the chaos-monde. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 502

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces ‘chaos-monde’ as the term for the global totality that suffers impoverishment with each language loss.