Life, Death, and Revival of Languages

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  • Louis-Jacques Dorais Université Laval

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17184/eac.anthropen.076

Keywords:

Language death, Linguistic minority, Diglossia, Glottophagia, Language market, Immaterial heritage

Abstract

This text describes the sociohistorical processes, such as colonialism and socioeconomic prestige that can lead to the extinction of a minority language. These processes are analyzed using the concepts of diglossia, glottophagy, and language markets in order to show that a language that was believed to be dying can often survive or even revive after it was set aside.

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