Death of a Language

Breaking the trend of great videos, I wanted to post this. The last speaker of a native Alaskan language has died at age 89.

It seems to me that we have been warned repeatedly that this is happening and will continue to happen. And though it doesn't make a lot of practical sense to get too worked up about it, the loss of a language is the loss of a history and a culture.

Would the preservation of an endangered language be useful in the future? Doubtlessly to historians and anthropologists. Does the disappearance of languages say anything about us today? Aren't we supposed to be embracing diversity and letting the global cultural market flourish?