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Title |
Title of document |
34. Why Do Languages Die? - The Five-Minute Linguist |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Christopher Moseley; Independent scholar |
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Subject |
Discipline(s) |
Linguistics |
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Keyword(s) |
introduction to language; introduction to linguistics; Linguistic Society of America; essays about language; what is language; what is linguistics |
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Subject |
Subject classification |
general linguistics |
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Description |
Abstract |
Languages that are no longer passed on to younger speakers, and eventually only the elderly speakers are left to speak them, die out. Languages can also die because of epidemics, human invasions or nature itself can swallow up languages. |
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Publisher |
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Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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09-Jul-2019 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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Format |
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PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/38154 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.38154 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; The Five-Minute Linguist |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Rights |
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Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |