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by wanderingstan 541 days ago
> Sumerian is 5,000 years old. We understand Sumerian. We are not going to forget Sumerian. A warning written in English is not going to be unreadable in 10,000 years.

It’s worth noting, however, that Sumerian was forgotten for nearly 2000 years: from ~200CE until the 1900s.

I agree it seems unlikely for a language to be completely forgotten again, we can’t be sure.