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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.
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Distinctions are commonly drawn between an endangered language (one with few or no children learning the language) and an extinct language (one in which the last native speakerhas died).
Linguist David Crystal has estimated that "one language [is] dying out somewhere in the world, on average, every two weeks". (By Hook or by Crook: A Journey in Search of English, 2008).
"Every 14 days a language dies. By 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth — many of them not yet recorded — may disappear, taking with them a wealth of knowledge abou..."I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations." (Samuel Johnson, quoted by James Boswell in The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, 1785)"Language death occurs in unstable bilingual or multilingual speechcommunities as a result of language shift from a regressive minority language to a dominant majority language. (Wolfgang Dressler,..."Aboriginal Australia holds some of the world's most endangered languages including Amurdag, which was believed to be extinct until a few years ago when linguists came across speaker Charlie Mangul..."A language is said to be dead when no one speaks it anymore. It may continue to have existence in recorded form, of course — traditionally in writing, more recently as part of a sound or video arc..."The effects of a dominant language vary markedly in different parts of the world, as do attitudes towards it. In Australia, the presence of English has, directly or indirectly, caused great lingui..."The main loss when a language dies is not cultural but aesthetic. The click sounds in certain African languages are magnificent to hear. In many Amazonian languages, when you say something you hav..."But let’s remember that this aesthetic delight is mainly savored by the outside observer, often a professional savorer like myself. Professional linguistsor anthropologists are part of a distinct..."At the end of the day, language death is, ironically, a symptom of people coming together. Globalization means hitherto isolated peoples migrating and sharing space. For them to do so and still ma...[T]he best non-linguists can do, in North-America, towards preserving languages, dialects, vocabularies and the like is, among other possible actions, (French linguist Claude Hagège, author of On the Death and Life of Languages, in "Q and A: The Death of Languages." The New York Times, Dec. 16, 2009) 1. Participating in associations which, in the U...
"The language of Ayapaneco has been spoken in the land now known as Mexico for centuries. It has survived the Spanish conquest, seen off wars, revolutions, famines, and floods. But now, like so man..."There are just two people left who can speak it fluently — but they refuse to talk to each other. Manuel Segovia, 75, and Isidro Velazquez, 69, live 500 metres apart in the village of Ayapa in the..."'They don't have a lot in common,' says Daniel Suslak, a linguistic anthropologist from Indiana University, who is involved with a project to produce a dictionary of Ayapaneco. Segovia, he says, c..."The dictionary is part of a race against time to revitalize the language before it is definitively too late. 'When I was a boy everybody spoke it,' Segovia told the Guardian by phone. 'It's disapp...- Richard Nordquist
Jul 5, 2014 · A language dies when nobody speaks it any more. For native speakers of the language in which this book is written, or any other thriving language, it is difficult to envision such a possibility. But the reality is easy to illustrate.
- David Crystal
- 2000
Linguists estimate that of the world’s approximately 6,900 languages, more than half are at risk of dying out by the end of the 21st century. Sometimes languages die out quickly. This can happen when small communities of speakers are wiped out by disasters or war.
- Noah Tesch
Language death. The rapid endangerment and death of many minority languages across the world is a matter of widespread concern, not only among linguists and anthropologists but among all concerned with issues of cultural identity in an increasingly globalized culture.
1 What is language death? The phrase ‘language death’ sounds as stark and Wnal as any other in which that word makes its unwelcome appearance. And it has similar implications and resonances. To say that a language is dead is like saying that a person is dead. It could be no other way – for languages have no existence without people.
Jun 5, 2012 · Language death occurs in unstable bilingual or multilingual speech communities as a result of language shift from a regressive minority language to a dominant majority language. (Dressler 1988: 184)
