Some For example Yagara a language.

Example of language death. Cambridge University Press 1985. A language dies when nobody speaks it any more. Bilin-gualism inevitably leads to borrowing and according to Campbell language death is an extreme case where an entire language is borrowed at the expense of another 19941960.

Kulick traveled there several times over the course of decades to study the endangered language Tayap. At other times minority languages survive much better for example when the speakers try to isolate themselves against a majority population. The term language death is used when that community is the last one in the world to use that language.

Aside from this natural and occasionally mutually beneficial language shift a culture can actively oppress a language. 1830s in Tasmania when virtually all of the islands native inhabitants were wiped out by European colonists during the black war. Replacement of Gaelic by English in parts of Scotland SUDDEN DEATH rapid extinction of language without an intervening period of bilingualism.

Often especially historically governments have tried to. The last speaker is monolingual in the dying language as in the case os Tasmanian. For native speakers of the.

Cambridge University Press 1985. The classic example is Thucydides bilingual Carian Histories 8. For example Spain oppressed Catalan languages throughout history until the mid 70s.

It could be no other way for languages have no existence without people. An example of this took place in the. An example of this is Miami language an Algonquin language which is used widely in Oklahoma and had been facing a decline in the last 30 years but is undergoing a revival at present Leonard 2008.