language death
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Unsurprisingly, she also found that language death often corresponds to ecological and cultural devastation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
The fight to get a Welsh language death certificate has taken Mrs Davies all the way to the High Court, as well as turning to her constituency MP for Cardiff West.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2025
The statistics and logic behind the trend towards language death are indeed bleak, as this article and many of the comments demonstrate.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2017
If language death is not natural, then we owe it to languages that have lost out from 'progress' to aid them through artificial means.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2010
I have, however, been angered by several contributors to this discussion who have given the impression that they believe the process of language death is natural and that we shouldn't interfere.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2010
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