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language endangerment: a standalone construct

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Sociolinguistics

the threat that a language will stop being spoken as children no longer learn it, putting much of the world's linguistic diversity at risk.

In sociolinguistics, language endangerment refers to the threat that a language will stop being spoken as children no longer learn it, putting much of the world's linguistic diversity at risk. This meaning comes from Krauss (1992) in Language.[1]

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Krauss, M. (1992). The world's languages in crisis. Language, 68(1), 4-10. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1992.0075

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