Linguicide
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Linguicide is a rarely used term describing the intentional causing of the death of a language. It is also used as a derogatory term to describe unintentional death of languages through competition and other mechanisms.
Some of the mechanisms leading to the death of languages include:
- imposition or prohibition of a language by state authorities
- linguistic competition (e.g. English vs. French in scientific publications)
- natural decline in populations that speak the language
See also
- Language death
- List of extinct languages
- List of endangered languages
- Extinct language
- Endangered language
- Language policy
- Minority language
- Regional language
- Language revival
- Cultural genocide
- Ethnocide
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