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  • Extinct language — An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers.[1], or that is no longer in current use. Extinct languages are sometimes contrasted with dead languages, which are still known and used in special contexts in written form, but… …   Wikipedia

  • Language shift — Language shift, sometimes referred to as language transfer or language replacement or assimilation, is the progressive process whereby a speech community of a language shifts to speaking another language. The rate of assimilation is the… …   Wikipedia

  • Language reconstruction — can refer to:*Linguistic reconstruction, establishing the features of a prehistoric language by the methods of historical and comparative linguistics *Linguistic purism in an existing language *Language revival of an extinct language …   Wikipedia

  • Language isolate — A language isolate, in the absolute sense, is a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or genetic ) relationship with other living languages; that is, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common to any other …   Wikipedia

  • Extinct languages of the Marañón River basin — Pre Inca languages in 16th century. The Marañón River basin between Peru and Ecuador, at a low point in the Andes which made it an attractive location for trade between the Inca Empire and the Amazon basin, once harbored numerous languages which… …   Wikipedia

  • Language death — In linguistics, language death (also language extinction or linguistic extinction, and rarely linguicide or glottophagy[1]) is a process that affects speech communities where the level of linguistic competence that speakers possess of a given… …   Wikipedia

  • Language family — See also: List of language families A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto language of that family. The term family comes from the tree model of language origination in… …   Wikipedia

  • Language — This article is about the properties of language in general. For other uses, see Language (disambiguation). Cuneiform is one of the first known forms of written language, but spoken language is believed to predate writing by tens of thousands of… …   Wikipedia

  • Language Code — ISO 639 ist ein internationaler Standard der Internationalen Organisation für Normung, der Kennungen für Namen von Sprachen (Sprachcodes) definiert. Der Standard besteht aus mehreren Teilnormen. Vier Teile für Kennungen mit zwei Buchstaben (ISO… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Language code — ISO 639 ist ein internationaler Standard der Internationalen Organisation für Normung, der Kennungen für Namen von Sprachen (Sprachcodes) definiert. Der Standard besteht aus mehreren Teilnormen. Vier Teile für Kennungen mit zwei Buchstaben (ISO… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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