Give Dying Languages a Bailout?

Which languages should be preserved and which should fail? Is it the government's job to decide? Do dying languages deserve a bailout?

"A language is considered extinct when the last person who learned it as his or her primary tongue dies. Last month, UNESCO launched an online atlas of endangered languages, labeling more than 2,400 at risk of extinction...extinct languages can be revived, especially when they have been recorded."

Preserving Languages Is About More Than Words
by Kari Lydersen
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/15/AR2009031501857.html