[dontupvoteme]

Language is culture, and if the sapir-whorf hypothesis holds, different languages are literally different methods of thinking.

there are also other potential benefits, e.g. "the" in english gives little information about what noun may follow. "die/das/der" in general cut the probability space to a third.

[kmlx]

> "the" in english gives little information about what noun may follow

for us non-native english speakers, this is an understated blessing.

[Brusco_RF]

When speakers of a dying language learn a dominant one they don't lose their way of thinking, rather they adapt the dominant language to their needs. In this way the dominant language evolves. It's why there are ~180k english words but only 1200 Sindarian words.

While I agree that cultural loss is tragic, consider that it is inevitable. Homo Sapiens have existed for ~200,000 years. We only have SOME traces of SOME cultures for say 10k of those years. So from that lens, the vast majority of human culture has already been lost.