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| Question | Answer |
| Dominant Language | Language that is associated with a powerful group. |
| Migrant Minorities | - First language in home - Second language outside world |
| Non-migrant Minorities | Social, political, and economic changes in a community can result in language shift. E.g. Oberwart |
| Migrant Majorities | - Occurs when a powerful group does the physical move - Colonial powers imposing language - Multilingual communities are not as affected as monolingual communities |
| Killer Languages a.k.a. Language Cannabalism | When a dominant language is learnt at the expense of the native language. |
| Effects of Language Shift | Bilingual community starts using the language in fewer and fewer domains and eventually becomes monolingual. |
| Language Loss | - People within community stop speaking it - Still exists out there |
| Language Death | Nobody uses it but it still exists. |
| Language Extinction | No way to know accuracy |
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