Languanologue # 13

Today we will see something more on endangered languages of the world. Specifically, we will also see on a phenomenon called Language Death, feared by linguists all over the world.

Language Death is a gradual process where the given number of fluent or native speakers of any language or dialect is decreased, eventually resulting in no native speakers of that variety. The most common process leading to language death is one in which a community of speakers of one language becomes bilingual in another language. A language is often declared to be dead even before the last native speaker of the language has died as there are only a few elderly speakers of a language remaining, and they no longer use that language for communication, then the language is effectively dead.