Language shift, also known as language transfer, language replacement or language assimilation, is the process whereby a speech community shifts to a different...

Language revitalization, also referred to as language revival or reversing language shift, is an attempt to halt or reverse the decline of a language...

endangered language or moribund language is a language that is at risk of disappearing as its speakers die out or shift to speaking other languages. Language loss...

change and language shift. In some areas, there is no reliable census data, the data is not current, or the census may not record languages spoken, or...

change and language shift. In some areas, there is no reliable census data, the data is not current, or the census may not record languages spoken, or...

(prestige). This sometimes leads to language endangerment or extinction. When language shift occurs, the language that is replaced (known as the substratum)...

: 15  It has recently taken on the nature of wholesale language shift, sometimes also termed language change, convergence or merger. By the end of the twentieth...

have been many language revitalization strategies implemented in order to create a language shift to try to reverse this language shift. Literature projects...

uses become more restrictive After a word enters a language, its meaning can change as through a shift in the valence of its connotations. As an example...

Turkish and a number of languages used in India written with a Brahmic scripts may use 7-bit encoding with national language shift table defined in 3GPP...

process of cultural assimilation leading to language shift and the gradual abandonment of a native language in favour of a foreign lingua franca, largely...

Look up Shift or shift in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Shift may refer to: Shift (series), a 2008 online video game series by Armor Games Need for...

the language. Despite its vigorous usage, since the mid-20th century, the language has been undergoing a slow relexification by Thai or language shift to...

unique among American languages; language shift towards European colonial languages (in this case, the other official language of Spanish) has otherwise...

process of cultural assimilation leading to language shift, and the gradual abandonment of a native language in favor of a foreign lingua franca. As of...

Germanic dialect continuum. The shift is used to distinguish High German from other continental West Germanic languages, namely Low Franconian (including...

transcription delimiters. The Great Vowel Shift was a series of pronunciation changes in the vowels of the English language that took place primarily between...

these languages remain, but language shift toward the use of Standard Japanese and dialects like Okinawan Japanese has resulted in these languages becoming...

vowel shift is a systematic sound change in the pronunciation of the vowel sounds of a language. The best-known example in the English language is the...

Harappan period and led to a language shift in the northern Indian subcontinent. Several hundred years later, the Iranian languages were brought into the Iranian...

norm of informal language and is a popular source of influence throughout the archipelago. There is language shift of first language among Indonesian...

some counterintuitive ways in which language shift was functioning in East Sutherland, noting that the Gaelic language was able to adapt to modern life even...

punished for speaking their native language, being told that their language was just a "dialect". Language shift to Japanese in Ryukyu/Okinawa began...

as many as 350,000 people declared their first language to be Kashmiri. A process of language shift is observable among Kashmiri-speakers in Azad Kashmir...

leaves a mark should no longer stain: Progressive erasure and reversing language shift activities in the Ryukyu Islands", Archived 2011-05-16 at the Wayback...

structural features in Indic is language shift, that is, native Dravidian speakers learning and adopting Indic languages due to elite dominance. Although...

urban Kabyles in Algeria are increasingly shifting to Arabic and diaspora Kabyles to the surrounding language. A 2013 study found that 54% of Kabyles living...

nowadays, with French being the majority language for the inhabitants after a continued process of language shift. According to a 2019 survey by the Catalan...

at least a working-knowledge of French. The 20th century saw a vast language shift, with the islanders adapting and changing their communications to the...

consider it as a "corrupt" form of Bengali, and there is a reported language shift from Sylheti to Standard Bengali in Bangladesh, India and the diaspora;...