A "lost" language is: -A language, such as Armenian, that is no longer spoken.
-A language, such as Greek, that has no traceable language family.
-It's lost because scholars can't find its exact source.
-Supported by a large number of cognates across differing languages.
-Indo-European in origin.

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts