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Three Causes Of Language Death

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Dead Language A dead language is a language that is no longer used in everyday conversations or a language that is no longer learned as a native language. Language death is a process that affects communities that communicate using a variety of language. This process happens when the linguistic competence that these community has of a language is decreasing. Due to that, the numbers of native or fluent speakers of the language of that community will eventually decrease. Language death can happen to any variety of a language including dialects or standard languages. Language death has different causes that depend on the different situation of every society. On the other hand, we can identify three typed of language death. First is the loss of population, second is forced shift of a language and third is the voluntary shift of using a language to another language. The division between these three types is not always clear especially between the voluntary and forced shift between languages. The first type of language death is population loss in which people who speak a certain language die. This type is very common over the last 500 years. The population loss can happen by a natural disaster, genocide or diseases. An example for that is the European invasion of Australia and America that lead to killing the natives by the hand of the colonizer and the spread of an epidemic brought by the colonizer which the natives had no immunity to which is smallpox. Due to

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