{"id":5270,"date":"2026-08-16T14:40:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T14:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ling.news\/?p=5270"},"modified":"2026-08-16T14:40:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T14:40:53","slug":"languages-are-disappearing-and-the-problem-is-political","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling.news\/?p=5270","title":{"rendered":"Languages are disappearing, and the problem is political"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/languages-are-disappearing-and-the-problem-is-political-288917\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Languages are disappearing, and the problem is political\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/753488\/original\/file-20260812-50-7n6u6p.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.1&amp;rect=0%2C114%2C1616%2C808&amp;q=45&amp;auto=format&amp;w=1356&amp;h=668&amp;fit=crop\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">theconversation.com<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">Languages are disappearing, and the problem is political<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">Language loss is often a reluctant choice made to escape violence, not a willing choice made to gain benefits.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-5270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultura","category-politica","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5271,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270\/revisions\/5271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}