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This document discusses language maintenance, shift, and death. It defines language maintenance as continuing use of a language despite competition from a dominant language. Language shift is defined as the replacement of one language by a more powerful dominant language. Language death occurs when a community is the last to speak a language, such as with the extinction of Cornish in England. The document examines factors that influence language shift and maintenance, such as economic changes, demography, i

Author

Ankita Das

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EN