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.

Example of language maintenance. Another observation regarding interethnic or intergroup differences in LM or LS rates relates to a specific group managing to maintain its language in very diverse settings. Blackwell Publishing Ltd 291 Defining Language Maintenance In fact investigating language maintenance is often done through the identification of domains and situations in which the language is no longer used or is gradually making way for. It is argued here that linguistic shift is a processual outcome of both outside forces stemming from regional national and global conditions as well as locally determined agencies.

Third every language is the guardian of its speakers history and culture and its. Eg Chinatows in North American cities. Most of the Greek immigrants to another country.

Due to the contribution of Greek to Western Philosophy and Culture thus this awareness. Language maintenance is needed to face the threat of a language shift. Language Maintenance Davis Alan and Catherine Elder.

Its last speaker died in 1927 but the language has been revitalized on the basis of earlier descriptions Wurm this volume. Religio-societal insulationisolation withdrawal from the world. The last speaker then.

However researchers use the terms in slightly different ways. Economic statusis a prominent factor in nearly all studies in language maintainancewhere grup of minority language speaker have relatively low economic. The term language maintenance has had limited currency in the description of societies where multilingualism was or is the norm for communication among individuals.

There two examples of language maintenance through possitive attitude highly valued as. 2 Winford 2003 notes that language shift can be the result of extensive language contact while on the other hand language maintenance tends to arise from the mechanisms of borrowing and code switching. Ii Frequent contact with the homeland.