Language death
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In linguistics, language death (also language extinction, linguistic extinction, and sometimes pejoratively as linguicide) is a process that affects speech communities where the level of linguistic competence that speakers possess of a given language idiom is decreased.
Total language death occurs when there are no speakers of a given language idiom remaining in a population where the idiom was previously used (i.e. when all native speakers die). Language death may affect any language idiom, including dialects and languages.
The study of language loss at the individual level focuses on what is lost - a first language (L1) or a second language (L2) - and where it is lost - in an L1 or L2 environment.
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See also
- Classical language
- Cultural genocide
- Cultural hegemony
- Endangered language
- Ethnocide
- Extinct language
- International Language
- Language contact
- Language policy
- Language revitalization
- Language shift
- Last speaker of language
- Linguistic discrimination
- Linguistic imperialism
- Linguistic purism
- Linguistic rights
- The Linguists (documentary film)
- Minority language
- Regional language
- Rosetta Project
- Semi-speaker
- Bengali Language Movement
- Anti-Hindi agitations of Tamil Nadu
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