cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/cool/p/1517755/game-designed-to-save-dying-aboriginal-language-wins-global-awards
With only eight fluent Nyiyaparli speakers remaining, an Aboriginal group is racing against time to save its 41,000-year-old language.
What is the distinction between saving and preserving a language?
I’m just guessing what they meant but I took it as the difference between:
saving = getting enough people to keep speaking it that it remains a living language
preserving = documenting it for posterity so that it is not utterly forgotten for all time