683: Lost Languages Oct 21, 2016

History is told by those whom have power. While it is very fun to compare languages, and see how words change over time, it ought to be remembered that we do not have all of the words that there are or have been. Currently, around of 90% of languages do not have written forms, and this is despite modern efforts to create standardized writing systems, so it is not difficult to imagine that older languages are often forgotten. Some languages, like the now-extinct relatives of Basque can't even be recreated very much in the way that Proto-Indo-European was, because there aren't enough non-Indo-European languages related to it that still exists.