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

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...

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 are no reliable census data, the data are not current, or the census may not record languages spoken or...

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

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...

: 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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

[Contributions to the 4th Essen Symposium on 'Language Contact, Language Change, Language Shift, Language Death' Held at the University of Essen on 9-10...

includes: 1. The language being geographically limited only to Sri Lanka, unlike its sibling language Tamil. 2. The language shift towards English, at...

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...

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

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

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...

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

Hindu. 28 October 2005. Language Shift in the Tamil Communities of Malaysia and Singapore: the Paradox of Egalitarian Language Policy, Ccat.sas.upenn.edu...

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...

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

between language and access to positions of prestige and power […] A relatively small immigrant elite population can encourage widespread language shift among...

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...

2, Median Succumbs to Persian after Three Millennia of Coexistence: Language Shift in the Central Iranian Plateau, p. 70 Pierre Lecoq. 1989. "Les dialectes...

of Navarre, Spanish is the official language of Navarre, while the Basque language is also the official language in Basque-Speaking areas. Unlike any...

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

northern group of Tungusic languages, a group which also includes Even, Negidal, and the more closely related Oroqen language. The name is sometimes wrongly...

viable resistance to total language shift from Gaelic to English. Currently, language policies are focused on creating new language speakers through education...