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Speaker types

Within the linguistic study of endangered languages, sociolinguists distinguish between different speaker types based on the type of competence they have acquired of the endangered language. Often when a community is gradually shifting away from an endangered language to a majority language, not all speakers acquire full linguistic competence; instead…

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Terminal speakers

Dead or extinct languageDolly PentreathCornwallCornishDocumenting
13 related topics

Passive speakers

Language shiftAinu peopleLanguage revival
3 related topics

Semi-speakers

Speech communitiesEast Sutherland dialectScottish Gaelic
3 related topics

Rememberers

Dying languageFluent
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Speaker types

Nodes35
Edges34
Triples1
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.057143
Components1

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language speakers speaker competence sometimes endangered types terminal also fluent rememberers passive last often community linguistic semi-speakers languages acquired full

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rememberersinstance ofLater studies added additional speaker types0.80text

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