LIN 1340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Language Shift, Speech Community, Multilingualism
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French to mainstream english. language variety by a speech community in favour of the habitual use of another. community using it. Again, this is usually a gradual process, but, in rare cases, it may be abrupt owing to disease or genocide. What is a (cid:494)dead(cid:495) language? involving the use of the ancestral language and the language to which a community is shifting. Language shift is typically a gradual process involving the steady abandonment of a. Characteristically, this process involves a degree of transitional bilingualism. Language shift tends to take decades, but there are some that happen very rapidly. Happening here in ontario, where people are gradually shifting from ancestral. Language death is also referred to as language obsolescence. A language can be considered to be (cid:494)dead(cid:495) when there is no longer speech. At least one case of linguistic genocide involves the aboriginal languages of: speakers do not shift to some other language because it is linguistically (cid:494)better(cid:495) than the.
