Languages, being the main source of communication, are obviously very important to a culture. Certain accents, mannerisms, dialect, and phrases that go along with a language are arguably what makes a culture. The whole history of a people could lie within what was once spoken. So, to see the last living member of a spoken word die is like watching history vanish. If there is no written record of a language, it may as well have not existed in the first place because no one will care about what they can't remember.
It would be an injustice to the past cultures to ignore their dying languages. It's good to hear that a team of researchers are doing what they can to track down the last remaining members of different cultures and record their languages. Even if the languages are no longer spoken, at least with a recorded history, their legacies will not be forgotten.
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