LING 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Language Death, Algonquian Languages, Lenca People

• School: McGill University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 200
• Professor: Alan Clinton Bale

Document Summary

Internal forces: communities" negative attitude towards its own language: negative attitude drives people to stop speaking a certain language. Language loss: language loss can be referred to as extinct or dormant , in addition to lost , occurs when a language is no longer the first language that people learn, types of language loss, sudden, radical, bottom-to-top, gradual. Sudden loss: a language that abruptly disappears, can result from the death of all of its speakers, an already threatened language can become suddenly extinct. Nicole o: uto-aztecan american indian tribe that lived on san nicholas, relocated to the mainland by missionaries, example of sudden loss. In 1811, remaining nicole o were killed by invaders. Radical loss: speakers shift from their native language to a dominant language in order to survive, arises in situations of repression or genocide, sudden death for the language, but the speakers survive.