language death

noun

Linguistics.

1. the complete displacement of one language by another in a population of speakers.

Example Sentences

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.

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Beautiful Irish drama has language, death, smoking.

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Language death does not happen in privileged communities, as scholar James Crawford wrote in the 1990s.

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Perhaps, she prayed, the gods only spoke Chinese, never studied English, would not recognize temptation in another language. “...death, that this will be our secret no matter what.”

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The statistics and logic behind the trend towards language death are indeed bleak, as this article and many of the comments demonstrate.

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