• Language shift, also known as language transfer, language replacement or language assimilation, is the process whereby a speech community shifts to a different...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Language revitalization, also referred to as language revival or reversing language shift, is an attempt to halt or reverse the decline of a language...
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  • 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...
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    : 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...
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  • (prestige). This sometimes leads to language endangerment or extinction. When language shift occurs, the language that is replaced (known as the substratum)...
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    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...
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    island's other major language, Tamil. The language shift towards English, at home as a second language to main spoken language in urban homes of young...
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    Germanic dialect continuum. The shift is used to distinguish High German from other continental West Germanic languages, namely Low Franconian (including...
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    unique among American languages; language shift towards European colonial languages (in this case, the other official language of Spanish) has otherwise...
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    process of cultural assimilation leading to language shift and the gradual abandonment of a native language in favour of a foreign lingua franca, largely...
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  • 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...
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  • Language change is the process of alteration in the features of a single language, or of languages in general, over time. It is studied in several subfields...
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    have been many language revitalization strategies implemented in order to create a language shift to try to reverse this language shift. Literature projects...
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    these languages remain, but language shift toward the use of Standard Japanese and dialects like Okinawan Japanese has resulted in these languages becoming...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • [Contributions to the 4th Essen Symposium on 'Language Contact, Language Change, Language Shift, Language Death' Held at the University of Essen on 9-10...
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    transcription delimiters. The Great Vowel Shift was a series of pronunciation changes in the vowels of the English language that took place primarily between...
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    punished for speaking their native language, being told that their language was just a "dialect". Language shift to Japanese in Ryukyu/Okinawa began...
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    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...
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  • Indo-Aryan migrations (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
    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...
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    2, Median Succumbs to Persian after Three Millennia of Coexistence: Language Shift in the Central Iranian Plateau, p. 70 Pierre Lecoq. 1989. "Les dialectes...
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    norm of informal language and is a popular source of influence throughout the archipelago. There is language shift of first language among Indonesian...
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    In the process of language shift, an abundance of Khmer elements were transferred into Thai and permeated all aspects of the language. Consequently, the...
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    structural features in Indic is language shift, that is, native Dravidian speakers learning and adopting Indic languages due to elite dominance. Although...
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    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...
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    viable resistance to total language shift from Gaelic to English. Currently, language policies are focused on creating new language speakers through education...
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