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1 " Phonocentrism places higher value on spoken language as being more primary than and thus superior to written language, which it conceives as necessarily corrupting the original Subject—the center of meaning. "
― Minae Mizumura , The Fall of Language in the Age of English
2 " Language death is like no other form of disappearance. When people die, they leave signs of their presence in the world, in the form of their dwelling places, burial mounds, and artefacts - in a word, their archaeology. But spoken language leaves no archaeology. When a language dies, which has never been recorded, it is as if it has never been. "
― David Crystal , How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die
