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Death of Language

This document discusses language death and loss. It notes that on average one language dies every two weeks, and by 2100 over half of the world's 7,000 languages may disappear. Factors that contribute to language shift from a minority language to a dominant one include demographic changes from rural to urban areas, economic pressures to use a majority language for work, social motivations, political choices of a national language, and whether the minority language is valued. Methods to preserve endangered languages include revitalizing dead languages like Hebrew was revived or efforts to promote daily use of languages like Welsh.

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Death of Language

This document discusses language death and loss. It notes that on average one language dies every two weeks, and by 2100 over half of the world's 7,000 languages may disappear. Factors that contribute to language shift from a minority language to a dominant one include demographic changes from rural to urban areas, economic pressures to use a majority language for work, social motivations, political choices of a national language, and whether the minority language is valued. Methods to preserve endangered languages include revitalizing dead languages like Hebrew was revived or efforts to promote daily use of languages like Welsh.

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Language death and

loss
Beksultan Melis uulu
Maksat Azhikeev
Saltanat Bolatkyzy
Tomiris Altynbekova
Nurkhan Kereyev
Table of Contents

Language death
01. and language loss 03. Language revival

Factors
02. contributing to 04. Conclusion
language shift
01
Language death and
language loss

What the difference?


What causes language death?
Language death
● When all the people who speak language die

Some numbers

“One language [is] dying out somewhere in the world, on average, every
two weeks".

By 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on
Earth — many of them not yet recorded — may disappear, taking with them
a wealth of knowledge about history, culture, the natural environment, and
the human brain." (National Geographic Society, Enduring Voices Project)
What is the language loss?
Language loss

The process leading to the language death


02
Factors contributing to
language shift
Demographic factors
● In New Zealand where
● Resistance to language ● Intermarriage
Maori survives as a
shift tends to last longer between groups can
in rural than in urban language of everyday
accelerate language
areas communication are shift
relatively inaccessible rural
areas, populated almost
entirely by Maori people

Example: Because of their relative social isolation,Ukrainians in


Canada who live out of town on farms have maintained their

ethnic language better than those in the towns.


The Economic Factor

Most obvious economic reason

Work

Example: USA
Social Factor
Absence of motivation to
preserve a language

Language shift

Example: Minority group moves


to a predominantly monolingual
society
Political factors

● In a multilingual country, the authority usually chooses


one language as the lingua franca to unify various
kinds of ethnic groups.
● Consequently, the number of ethnic language
speakers decreases.

Example: USSR and languages of minor ethnic groups


Attitudes and Values

High
Minority language is language When the minority group
highly valued shift support the use of the minority
language, it helps them to resist
the pressure from the majority
group to switch language.
Low
language Minority languages
shift are not valued
Language revival

Resurrecting a dead language

Preserving a dying language


The resurrection of Hebrew after 1,700 years

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda Itamar Ben Avi


The father of modern The first native speaker of
Hebrew Hebrew in modern times
Preserving the Welsh language

2001 - Welsh was 2004 - 88% of people surveyed


1980 - 20% of the used the language on a daily
becoming popular with
population spoke Welsh basis in their normal lives
young people
Conclusion
Resources
● https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-language-death-1691215

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