- Any assertion of the superiority of one language over another is inherently problematic. So are the suggestions that language by itself may be causally attributable to the rise and fall of a civilization. This is not to say, of course, that there cannot be at an individual level any perceivable preference of one language over another, or that one language may never have an advantage over another under some particularized circumstances. It is the overly broad generalization, out of context and in the absence of any specifics, that provides a recipe for a fruitless inquiry into a topic like this.
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