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What do you think are the reasons for the extinction of languages?



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  1. With increasing disuse, not because the peoples themselves, with their cultural traditions, have dwindled away, but because the language has been overwhelmed by a more dominant one.
  2. A language needs a nation (in the broad sense of people conscious of a group identity) that sees it as ‘its own’failing this the language dies out
  3. A language’s social status determines its life or death. If its speakers turn away more and more from using a language that is perceived as conferring real benefits in everyday life, it dies out
  4. The introduction of a non-indigenous language that takes over all social functions
  5. The disappearance of a population that speaks that language
  6. Parents do not pass on a language to their children
  7. Population dislocation or relocation due to events like war, famine, earthquakes
  8. The emergence of a new world language
  9. The emergence of supra linguistic functions like banking information in another language

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