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Code Switching Essay

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Speakers form and establish a pidgin language when two or more speakers who do not speak a common language form an intermediate, third language. On the other hand, speakers practice code-switching when they are each fluent in both languages. Code mixing is a thematically related term, but the usage of the terms code-switching and code-mixing varies. Some scholars use either term to denote the same practice, while others apply code-mixing to denote the formal linguistic properties of language-contact phenomena, and code-switching to denote the actual, spoken usages by multilingual persons. Literature scholars use the term code- switching to describe literary styles which include elements from more than one language, e.g. novels by Latino writers, …show more content…

It’s the process whereby a speech community of a language shifts to speaking another language. It’s the replacement of one language by another as a primary means of communication and socialization within a community Language endangerment refers to speakers of many smaller and less dominant languages stop using their heritage language and begin using another language.It’s a serious concern to which linguists and language planners have turned their attention in the last several decades. It refers to a language that face the risk of fading out of use as its speakers change to speaking another language or dies out. When spoken languages become dominant overthe less commonly spoken languages, the less commonly spoken languages eventually disappear. The loss of languages harms the cultural diversity of the world. There are four main types of causes of language endangerment.There are those causes that put the populations that speak the languages in physical danger, such as: 1. Natural disasters. An example of this is the languages spoken by the people of the Andaman Islands, who were seriously affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and

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