A language, like a species, when once extinct, never, reappears. - Charles Darwin (The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex Quotes)

A language, like a species, when once extinct, never reappears.[as Sir C. Lyell remarks]

Source:Part I. The Descent or Origin of Man, Chapter III. Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals
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