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    This document discusses language maintenance, shift, death, and revival. It outlines factors that contribute to language shift for migrant minorities, majorities, and non-migrant communities due to political, economic, social and environmental pressures. These include demographic factors like intermarriage and group size/distribution, as well as attitudes and values regarding language identity and pride. Maintaining minority languages requires institutional support, concentrated communities, and language use in some domains. Reviving languages involves raising community awareness of identity reasons for doing so and taking steps to revitalize the language economically and socially.

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    This document discusses language maintenance, shift, death, and revival. It outlines factors that contribute to language shift for migrant minorities, majorities, and non-migrant communities due to political, economic, social and environmental pressures. These include demographic factors like intermarriage and group size/distribution, as well as attitudes and values regarding language identity and pride. Maintaining minority languages requires institutional support, concentrated communities, and language use in some domains. Reviving languages involves raising community awareness of identity reasons for doing so and taking steps to revitalize the language economically and socially.

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    This document discusses language maintenance, shift, death, and revival. It outlines factors that contribute to language shift for migrant minorities, majorities, and non-migrant communities due to political, economic, social and environmental pressures. These include demographic factors like intermarriage and group size/distribution, as well as attitudes and values regarding language identity and pride. Maintaining minority languages requires institutional support, concentrated communities, and language use in some domains. Reviving languages involves raising community awareness of identity reasons for doing so and taking steps to revitalize the language economically and socially.

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    This document discusses language maintenance, shift, death, and revival. It outlines factors that contribute to language shift for migrant minorities, majorities, and non-migrant communities due to political, economic, social and environmental pressures. These include demographic factors like intermarriage and group size/distribution, as well as attitudes and values regarding language identity and pride. Maintaining minority languages requires institutional support, concentrated communities, and language use in some domains. Reviving languages involves raising community awareness of identity reasons for doing so and taking steps to revitalize the language economically and socially.

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    LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE

    AND SHIFT

    Presented by:
    Zaini Yasir Rasyid Rabani
    410-321-2213-1015
    Language Shift in Different Communities
    Non-Migrant
    Migrant Minorities Migrant Majorities
    Communities

    Political, Economic,
    Social influences

    Invasion;
    Environment Social Threatening to
    Influence political,
    Pressure Majority group
    economic and social

    Start using accepted community language


    Successful
    BUT
    Assimilation
    Abandoning mother tongue

    Accepted by
    Communities
    Language Death and Language Loss

     When all the people who speak a language die,


    the language dies with them. The people still
    thrive, but their mother tongue is not.
     With the spread of a majority group language into
    more and more domains, the number of contexts
    in which individuals use the ethnic language
    diminishes.
     The functions of the language are taken over in
    one domain after another by another language.
     As the domains in which speakers use the
    language shrink, the speakers of the dying
    language become gradually less proficient in it.
    Factors Contributing to
    Language Shift
    Political, Economic, and
    Social factors

    Get a better job Accepted by community No reason to maintain

    Influence speed of shift


    (cont)
    Demographic Factor Attitude and Values

    Intermarriage between Pride, Important


    Size of a groups
    groups Identity

    Influence speed of shift


    Maintain Minority Language

    Howard Giles’
    Ethnolinguistic Vitality

    Size of groups and their


    Status of a language Institutional support
    distribution

    Scattered Managing and ensure


    Minority important
    or language is used in
    symbol or identity
    Concentrated some settings / domains

    Slowing down or
    reversing language shift
    Language Revival

    Community awareness Economic

    How strongly people


    wants and their reason Social
    for doing so

    Take a step to revitalize Demographic

    Revived
    OR Attitudinal
    Prolonged
    OR
    Death

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