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Language death - Coggle Diagram
Language death
Types
Gradual language death
The most common way that languages die. Generally happens when the people speaking that language interact with speakers of a language of higher prestige.
Bottom -to-top
Occurs when the language stars to be used for only religious, literary, ceremonial purposes, but not in casual context.
Top-to - bottom
Happens when language shift begins in a high- level environment such as the goverment, but still continues to be used in casual context.
Radical language death
The disappearance of a language when all speakers of the language cease to speak the language because of threats, pressure, persecution, or colonisation. In the case of radical death, language death is very sudden therefore the speech comminity skips over over the semi - speakers phase where structural changes begin to happen to languages.
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Language revitalization
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Other Cases of language revitalization which have seen some degree of success are Wlesh, Basque, Hawaiian and Navajo
The reason for death
The primary or underlying cause of death is defined as that condition or injury ( or circumstances of the injury) that initiated the train of morid events leading directly to death.
It teaches a cultural sensitivity and historical understanding that can,.essentially, help us to effectively learn from the past.
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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 linguistic competence in their language variety decreases eventually resulting in no native or fluent speakers of the variety.