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"There are nine different words in Maya for the color blue in the comprehensive Porrua Spanish-Maya Dictionary but just three Spanish translations, leaving six butterflies that can be seen only by the Maya, proving beyond doubt that when a language dies six butterflies disappear from the consciousness of the earth."
—Earl Shorris, "The last word: Can the world’s small languages be saved?", Harper’s Magazine, August 2000.
Via DJMisc.
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