The extinction of language is nothing new...What is new today is the rate and extent of extinction of languages. - H. Russell Bernard

.. most people think of science as technology and engineering—life-saving drugs, computers, space exploration, and so on... It is less commonly understood that social and behavioral sciences have also produced technologies and engineering that dominate our everyday lives. These include polling, marketing, management, insurance, and public health programs.

Teaching people to read primers and Bibles does not produce authors; it produces readers. Printing presses and publishing houses produce authors. This rule is no different today for nonliterate languages than it was in late medieval times in Europe.

Weren't humans domesticated by the requirements of the plants and animals themselves?