Language Maintenance, Shift, & Loss

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Dominant Language Language that is associated with a powerful group.
Migrant Minorities - First language in home - Second language outside world
Non-migrant Minorities Social, political, and economic changes in a community can result in language shift. E.g. Oberwart
Migrant Majorities - Occurs when a powerful group does the physical move - Colonial powers imposing language - Multilingual communities are not as affected as monolingual communities
Killer Languages a.k.a. Language Cannabalism When a dominant language is learnt at the expense of the native language.
Effects of Language Shift Bilingual community starts using the language in fewer and fewer domains and eventually becomes monolingual.
Language Loss - People within community stop speaking it - Still exists out there
Language Death Nobody uses it but it still exists.
Language Extinction No way to know accuracy
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