Nevertheless the rallying cry calls to follow a false trail:

«Each tongue – and there are no ‘small’ or lesser languages – construes a set of possible worlds and geographies of remembrance... When a language dies, a possible world dies with it. There is here no survival of the fittest. Even when it is spoken by handful, by the harried remnants of destroyed communities, a language contains within itself the boundless potential of discovery, of re-compositions of reality, of articulate dreams, which are known to us as myths, as poetry, as metaphysical conjecture and the discourse of the law»
[Steiner, 1998: XIV].