https://arstechnica.com/science/2014/11/lost-languages-leave-traces-on-the-brain/

∞ Implications galore… but, especially for the »early immersion in the relational languages of children, nature, animals… and authentically living contexts.

What if we are »missing crucial root experiences that would catalyze ongoing development… ordinarily invisible to us… but absolutely necessary to the basis of our consciousness, relationships with language… and awareness of the potentials (both those that are profound and those that are deadly) for communication, relation… and representation?

And, frankly, this is the wrapper for something far more accessible, shocking and … human… a kind of ‘transcendental expertise’ with »languaging forms… rather than the ordinary ‘user level’ skills that the vast majority of people acquire only relatively primitive degrees of. At best.