Language shift,

Language loss and

Language Death
 Language Shift

Language shift is the process by which a speech community in a

contact situation. Language shift is not always the result of migration.

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Factor Contributing of Language Shift

Demographic Attitude

Economic Political

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 DEMOGRAPHIC
When there is a community of speakers moving to a region or a country whose
language is different from theirs, there is a tendency to shift to the new language.

Example :

I was born in Bali so my mother tongue is Balinese which was used as

the language in my former neighborhood and the medium of instruction
in my elementary school. I moved to Jakarta in 1998. Since then, I only
use Balinese at home with my family and my Balinese neighbors.
Because there is a high frequency of contact with people coming from
different ethnic groups who use Indonesian 4
Attitude

The negative attitudes towards the language can also accelerate language shift.

Example :

Teenagers in some big cities of Bali Province gradually abandon Balinese in daily
communication, they feel more prestigious when using Bahasa Indonesia or English
than when using Balinese.

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Economic

Language shift is caused by economic reason.

Example :

The high demand from industries for employees with fluent English has successfully
encouraged job seekers to equip themselves with English. In fact, being competent in
English leads to well-paid job.

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Political

Political factor imposes on language shift.

Example :

The political situation in 1947 led to the partition of India. Sindhi Hindus fled
from the Sind. They spoke Sindhi at home but had to adopt the local languages.

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 Language Loss
Language loss refers to the suppression of an indigenous language or mother tongue.
Language loss results in the loss of the human factors.

The cause of language loss :

1. Assimilation
2. Social distance
3. Acculturation

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Language Death
Language death is another sociolinguistic phenomenon related to language
change is language death. A dying language is a language spoken by fewer and
fewer people from time to time and a dead language is a language that has no
speakers anymore because the speakers have totally shifted to another language.

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Type of Language Death

The Partial Language The Total Language

Death Death
The partial language The total language death
death is related to the happens when the
language shift language has no more
phenomenon found in the speakers left. The
immigrant groups in their situation is more likely to
new land come about to the
language spoken by
minority than to the
language with lots of
speakers.
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 The cause of language death

Probably the most common cause of language death is when a community that
previously only spoke one language starts to speak another one .

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Differences between language loss and death
 
Loss

1. Language loss  which wording you did not employ, though both other respondents took
your meaning that way has been nicely defined and addressed by Roger.

2. Language loss, on the other hand, takes us from the societal, or even global level, right
down to the personal, to the individual.

3. The phrase 'language loss' (or 'loss of language') is most typically seen used in
medicine, speech language pathology, and (neuro)psychology. It describes incidences
where a formerly communicative person has lost the ability of speech 12
Death

1. Language death or death of a language is the ending of a tongue. That is a particular set of
vocabulary and rules for communication due to the extinction of the people who spoke it
natively.

2. A dead language no longer has a natural, native group of speakers. It is no longer truly
growing and developing in response to the use of it by its speakers reacting to their world.

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