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Language death

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language extinctionnounlanguage death
extinct languagenounA dead language.
ghost languagenounA language which has lost its speakers.
killer languagenoun(linguistics) A dominant and prestigious language which gradually causes extinction of other, especially minor languages.
sleeping languagenoun(in the context of language revival) Extinct
modern languagenounA human language which is living or recently extinct.
demolinguisticsnounlanguage demographics
living languagenounA language which is still spoken in the contemporary period.
linguistic landscapenoun(linguistics) The totality of written language visible within a certain area.
linguismnounDiscrimination based on a person's language.
ter saminounOne of the languages spoken by the Sami people, now moribund.
language bordernounA division between two languages or dialects such that they are mutually unintelligible and for which there is no intermediate language or dialect that can understand both.
native tonguenounSynonym of native language.
aka-bonounA Great Andamanese language, the last speaker of which died in 2010.
siuslawnounA member of one of the tribes comprising the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians.
klallamnounA member of a group of related Native American communities from the Pacific Northwest of North America.
pite saminounOne of the languages spoken by the Sami people, now moribund.
miaminounA city, the county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida.
columbia-wenatchinounA language spoken in the northwest of the United States that is nearly extinct.
itonamanounA people of the Amazonian lowlands of north-eastern Bolivia.

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