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Note the qualification of "small- er " languages: you are implying "languages which are still large enough that a translational layer is economically feasible. Small languages (let me pull a number out of thin air and assume <20 million speakers) would still be doomed. Guess what: that means English, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian and Polish for Europe, everyone else kindly GTFO, we don't have resources for implem…
Sorry, I don't quite follow your intended meaning, but I will try to expand on my initial comment below. If it no longer matters what language someone speaks, a language with fewer speakers than others wouldn't need to become extinct, as will happen without tech-aided interpretation. Of course, the viability of a language isn't solely connected to the ability for a native speaker to do commerce in it, but I would ima…
The actual scenario tends to be "but you have a choice of all these 20 languages; are you just lazy to learn a proper language that's on the list?" My native language has about 10 million users, so I get this a lot (and consequently, most of my digital UX is in English - significantly less hassle for me).