LING 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Endangered Language, Language Death, Language Shift
6 Dec 2018
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When all speakers worldwide of a language die. No one is using or acquiring language as li. Some prefer sleeping language: moribund language. When no children are acquiring the language; speakers are older: language revitalization. When a dead or sleeping language gets widely used again: language shift and loss scenario- Political change/ power shift: mos countries have minority languages. May be undignous languages in cases of colonization. Can be former colonizer langges like spanish in us sw. Minority language could have more native speakers than majority language (official. Languages of non powered groups language, socially dominant language, etc: maori in new zealand. Aided by death disease and warfare ---decline of language. Dominant language is english due to colonization. One of first example of revitizialtion: socio cultural. Minority language speakers speakers and cultural rules and expectations for/against interaction in both languages. French spoken in paris, france and french spoken in quebec, canada different but can understand each other.
