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Language Endangerment
- Vanishing language, language loss
- (It will cease to be learned by children in the 21st century)
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Language Loss
the loss of first or second language or a portion of that language by individuals.
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Moribund
language is only spoken by adults who no longer teach it to the next generation.
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What are the causes of language loss?
- The history of language loss seems to be a reflection of the history of expansion
- of various politico-socio-economical powers, which for the most part (sadly but true) is the history of colonization, invasion, conquest, and forced assimilation.
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What are the criteria that are used to categorize the language vitality?
- Intergeneration transmission
- Age of speakers
- Number of speakers
- Functions of the language
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