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Language maintenance and shift are complex sociolinguistic processes. Language shift occurs when a community progressively replaces their native language with another, often the dominant language of a wider society. This can be due to various factors like economic pressures, social and political influences, demography, and attitudes toward the languages. Language maintenance refers to efforts to preserve a threatened language through practices like valuing the minority language as part of ethnic identity. W

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