A language for a bird

There are more than
8000 bird species
There are more than
7000 languages
spoken in the world*

Eliezer Nowordwoski,
" And how many more have
disappeared over time?
Probably 12000"

For each lost bird
a language lost
for each birds song
a language unheard

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*Resurrecting Hebrew, Ilan Stavans (pg 50)