language death
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
Language death does not happen in privileged communities, as scholar James Crawford wrote in the 1990s.
From Seattle Times
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.”
From Literature
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
No mainstream republican had ever used such language; death threats followed.
From Economist
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