LING 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Language Death, Arvanitika, Extinct Language
25 Sep 2017
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12. 6. 2: from minority status to endangerment: semi-speakers: (terminal speakers): many analysts talk about language death when there are no longer any fluent speakers. At such a point, there may well be speakers with some command of the targeted language but not full fluency. 12. 6. 3: can dying/dead languages be revived: some linguists prefer the term dormant language to dead or extinct language, their thinking being that under the right conditions, languages can be reawakened and revived, examples: miami language in ohio. It is hard to generalize about what a language will look like: characteristics include, vocabulary loss, the decline of native word orders or syntactic combinations.
