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

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...

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...

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...

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

: 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...

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...

transcription delimiters. The Great Vowel Shift was a series of changes in the pronunciation of the English language that took place primarily between 1400...

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

modern period, languages have typically become extinct as a result of the process of cultural assimilation leading to language shift, and the gradual...

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

shift is a good example of a chain shift, as was its predecessor, the first Germanic consonant shift. For example, phases 1 and 2 left the language without...

language and remains commonly used among the Paraguayan people and neighboring communities. This is unique among American languages; language shift towards...

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...

(2006). Seth L. Sanders (ed.). Aramaic, the Death of Written Hebrew, and Language Shift in the Persian Period (PDF). Margins of Writing, Origins of Cultures...

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...

during the first shift, ready to shift in during the second shift without any extra preparation. In C and C++ languages, the logical shift operators are...

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

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

and Xinjiang where they mixed with the local Kipchaks, resulting in a language shift. After the Mongol conquest in 1207 and a series of revolts against the...

Sho hōgen). Okinawan speakers are undergoing language shift as they switch to Japanese, since language use in Okinawa today is far from stable. Okinawans...

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

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...

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...

In computer programming, an arithmetic shift is a shift operator, sometimes termed a signed shift (though it is not restricted to signed operands). The...

consequently, all Judeo-Spanish-speaking communities are undergoing a language shift. In some expatriate communities in Spain, Latin America, and elsewhere...

languages have been subject to phenomena like language contact, language expansion, language shift and language death. A case in point is the Bantu expansion...

language had around 60–70. The entire family is thus to be regarded as moribund. The Yukaghir have experienced a politically imposed language shift in...

(PDF), Language in India, retrieved 16 August 2007 Bharadwaj, Ajay (7 March 2010) Punjabi edges out Tamil in Haryana. DNA India Language Shift in the...