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This situation is call by Mufwene(....) ‘Langauge endangerment’ He claims, Language endngerment is “the process whereby a langauge loses grounds to another either because it is spoken by fewer and fewer speakers and/or because it is heavily influenced by the competitor, which its speakers seem to command or like better”...
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This situation is call by Mufwene(....) ‘Langauge endangerment’ He claims, Language endngerment is “the process whereby a langauge loses grounds to another either because it is spoken by fewer and fewer speakers and/or because it is heavily influenced by the competitor, which its speakers seem to command or like better”...
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Language Variation When most people think of language variation, they think of geographic variation. However, variation can be caused by any type of separation that causes one group of speakers to have less contact with another group of speakers...	2 / 296
The Ways Of Revealing The speaker of the “Hazel tells LaVerne” story repeats the line “me a princess,” indicating that her bluster is just a front for her dreams. The word choice and humorous tone of Machan’s story also reveal much about Hazel’s personality and position...	1 / 216
Written And Spoken English Language The English language consists both of written and spoken features. Until recently, items and structures most typically found in spoken language have not been fully described...	3 / 734
Killer Languages • What are some of the political, social or economic reasons why people abandon their languages in favour of others? • What is the role of language in the construction of local, regional, or national identities? • What social or political strategies can individuals or groups use to resist language shift and death? When language communities face any language contact situations, different linguistic processes can occur, being the most common language shift and language death, usually of the language community less powerfull...	5 / 1290
Swahili The name Swahili derives from an Arabic word Swahili, the plural of sahel, which means coast. The Swahili are the descendants of the Arabs who came to the East African coast and intermarried with the Local Bantu-speakers...	2 / 286
Telugu As Velcheru Narayana Rao states in page 3 of his book "Classical Telugu Poetry": "every Sanskrit word is potentially a Telugu word as well, and literary texts in Telugu may be lexically Sanskrit or Sanskritized to an enormous extent, perhaps sixty percent or more...	1 / 225
The Linguistic Situation of South Africa The first identified language spoken in the South Africa was Khoisan. This language was spoken by the indigenous people of South Africa, the Khoikhio, who lived mainly in the southern coastal regions of the country...	3 / 723