noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun

1. 1
   The death of a language, when a language loses its last native speaker

Synonyms

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cultural lossdeath of languageethnolinguistic lossknowledge losslanguage extinctionlanguage shift process

Antonyms

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linguistic origincultural preservationethnolinguistic continuitylanguage maintenance