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
Beautiful Irish drama has language, death, smoking.
From Washington Post
Language death does not happen in privileged communities, as scholar James Crawford wrote in the 1990s.
From Seattle Times
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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