LING 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Language Death, Language Shift

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 100
• Professor: pankratz

Document Summary

73,7% of the world population speaks one of forty most common. The rest (26,3%) - speaks one of sixty eight hundred forty. 2: 90% of the approximately 250 indigenous aboriginal languages spoken before 1800 are already dead and heading for death in. Australia: 80% of the estimated 187 native north american languages are extinct or destined to extinction in the usa and canada, every two weeks, somewhere in the world, a language disappears completely. Some linguists estimate that by the twenty second century the world"s languages will literally be decimated, dropping from around 6000 to around 600 (krauss. When we lose a language we lose more than just a code for communicating with others. People losing their language are putting their socio-cultural identity at risk. Language as a means of communication: primary source is the oral or verbal form of communication.