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The document is a transcript from a talk given by researcher Clive Thomas about endangered small languages. He discusses how he studied anthropology and has been working on an oral literature project to document undocumented languages. Clive notes that approximately 6,500 languages have yet to be documented and that he used a random selection process to choose one language for documentation, though his attempt to write a grammar was abandoned. He identifies education as the main cause of decline for minorit
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