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Once an LLM knows an indigenous language, even if the last speaker dies out, future generations will be able to learn the language and use the LLM to converse with them in that language.

Learning a new language is a good use case for LLMs, not just indigenous languages, but any language.

As for your comment "ree bad British man destroyed India" this sound more like politics than anything of substance.

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Yes, but the LLM is roughly equivalent to lossy compression of the corpus it is trained on so why wouldn't you preserve that actual corpus so that it can be used to train some better LLM, or something better than an LLM, in the future?

(There may be a good answer to that question: perhaps, for example, the corpus can't be preserved for data protection reasons but the LLM trained on it can be preserved? For various reasons that doesn't seem very plausible, however.)

You can do both. Preserving the corpus and building the LLM probably gives the best chance for future generations.

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