Language death
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language-death-164-15647939
title:
Language death
text:
In linguistics, language death occurs when a language loses its last native speaker. By extension, language extinction is when the language is no longer known, including by second-language speakers, when it becomes known as an extinct language. A related term is linguicide, the death of a language from natural or political causes, and, rarely, glottophagy, the absorption or replacement of a minor language by a major language. Language death is a process in which the level of a speech community's
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description:
Process in which a language eventually loses its last native speaker
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_death
date created:
2005-01-04T09:45:32Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T02:44:31Z
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