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by sremani 3394 days ago
A language that is spoken by 80 million people is not dead, and is not dying. The colonial two-step when coming to languages existed for a long time and its just matter of time, people with help of machine learning will provide support in multiple languages etc.

For much large part of Mughal period the court language was Farsi, but Hindi/Urdu survived, you are underestimating the ability of people to straddle multiple languages. For many Indians its just a necessity.