:: : : If'language death'were plain English, which perhaps it isn't, it would surely mean the moment when a dying language becomes a dead language.
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That article and the article on Language death linked to in it were very helpful . talk ) 00 : 53, 5 December 2012 ( UTC)
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Given the process of marginalization combined with the trend of migration to urban areas and to the United States, some linguists are warning of impending language death.
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Linguists believe 3, 400 to 6, 120 languages could become extinct by 2100, a statistic much grimmer than the common estimate of about one language death every two weeks.
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Linguists believe 3, 400 to 6, 120 languages could become extinct by 2100, a statistic grimmer than the widely used estimate of about one language death every two weeks.
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British linguist David Crystal has contributed to investigations of language death attention to the effects of cultural assimilation resulting in the spread of one dominant language in situations of colonialism.
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This increasing use of the English language globally has had a large impact on many other languages, leading to language shift and even language death, and to claims of linguistic imperialism.
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The most common process leading to language death is one in which a community of speakers of one language becomes assimilation which may be voluntary or may be forced upon a population.
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In addition to forming of a new language, known as a creole, language contact can result in changes to the languages in contact, such as language convergence, language shift or language death.
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Kenan Malik has also argued that it is " irrational " to try to preserve all the world's languages, as language death is natural and in many cases inevitable, even with intervention.
