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I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

Samuel Johnson
Sorry, Communication, Tongue
In James Boswell 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (1785) 18 September 1773
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.