Okay, so, yeah, this is pretty fascinating stuff. My inclination is to say, "Huh, well, yeah, interesting request, Tasmanian Aboriginal Center, but you can't (and, to my mind shouldn't) be able to copyright a language."
But there may also be some privilege issues there, too, that are blinding me to some compelling ethical reason why they should.
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Can you own a language?
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