The term language maintenance has been and continues to be used extensively in the context of societies where only specific sectors of the community.

Example of language maintenance. Members of the minority language live in the same location or meet in shops markets etc. Language shift thus is a form of social praxis intimately. Language or a dialect constituting the particular communitys local vernacular are called language maintenance.

Third every language is the guardian of its speakers history and culture and its. Baker and Jones 2008 have defined language maintenance as the promotion or protection of the native language of an individual or of a speech community. The last speaker then.

However researchers use the terms in slightly different ways. Language revival Attitude is the most important factor relevant to language revival. Even though someof its central aspects have a rather long history in the field of study known as language culture and society in the most recent research agenda interest in linguistic shift and maintenance has touched on almost all crucial areas of the study.

Clyne 200320 reminds us that what a research means by language. Prioritysimultaneity with Anglo- Americans. Most African and many Asian communities would be prime examples of such communities.

Gradual death involves gradual replacement of one language by another. Language Maintenance Davis Alan and Catherine Elder. How about language maintenance.

Economic statusis a prominent factor in nearly all studies in language maintainancewhere grup of minority language speaker have relatively low economic. Most of the Greek immigrants to another country. A good example is the Aboriginal Kaurna language.