LINGUICIDE

'Linguicide' or 'Linguistic Genocide' is a 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

★ a colonial era language overwhelming the indiginous people's languages, i.e. The Americas and Oceania.

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★ 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

★ Welsh Not

★ Symbole

★ Russification

★ Speak Mandarin Campaign

★ Vergonha

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★ Linguicide