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    A semi-speaker is a speaker of an endangered language who has partial competence in the language. Semi-speakers do not regularly use the endangered language in conversation, and their speech may contain errors. As languages become obsolete and communities shift to other dominant languages, the endangered language is spoken less and in fewer social situations. This can result in some speakers learning the language partially or in a simplified form with influence from the dominant language - these are semi-speakers. When semi-speakers make up a large part of the speaking community, the language often contracts as linguistic norms adjust to the competencies of semi-speakers.

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    A semi-speaker is a speaker of an endangered language who has partial competence in the language. Semi-speakers do not regularly use the endangered language in conversation, and their speech may contain errors. As languages become obsolete and communities shift to other dominant languages, the endangered language is spoken less and in fewer social situations. This can result in some speakers learning the language partially or in a simplified form with influence from the dominant language - these are semi-speakers. When semi-speakers make up a large part of the speaking community, the language often contracts as linguistic norms adjust to the competencies of semi-speakers.

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    A semi-speaker is a speaker of an endangered language who has partial competence in the language. Semi-speakers do not regularly use the endangered language in conversation, and their speech may contain errors. As languages become obsolete and communities shift to other dominant languages, the endangered language is spoken less and in fewer social situations. This can result in some speakers learning the language partially or in a simplified form with influence from the dominant language - these are semi-speakers. When semi-speakers make up a large part of the speaking community, the language often contracts as linguistic norms adjust to the competencies of semi-speakers.

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    Semi-speaker

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Semi-speaker
    In linguistics, a semi-speaker is a speaker of an endangered language who has a partial linguistic
    competence in the language. Generally semi-speakers do not regularly use the endangered language
    in conversation, and their speech can contain erroneous forms. Semi-speakers are often among the
    most motivated engaged participants in language revitalization projects.[1]
    As languages become obsolete and speech communities shift to other languages they are spoken less
    frequently and in fewer social domains. For this reason many speakers learn the language partially,
    and often in a simplified way with significant influence from the majority language. These speakers are
    sometimes referred to as "semi-speakers", "quasi-speakers", or "rememberers". The word semispeaker was introduced by linguist Nancy Dorian in describing the last speakers of the East
    Sutherland dialect of Scots Gaelic.[2][3]
    When semi-speakers form a significant part of the speech community language contraction often
    ensues, as the linguistic norms are accommodated to the competences of the speakers.[4][5]

    References
    1. ^ Grinevald, Collette & Michel Bert. 2011. "Speakers and Communities" in Austin, Peter K;
    Sallabank, Julia, eds. (2011). Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages. Cambridge
    University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-88215-6. p.50
    2. ^ Dorian, Nancy C. 1980. Language Shift in Community and Individual: The Phenomenon of the
    Laggard Semi-Speaker. International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Volume 1980, Issue
    25, Pages 8594
    3. ^ N. Dorian, "The Problem of the Semi-Speaker in Language Death," International Journal of the
    Sociology of Language 12 (1977): 23-32.
    4. ^ Knowles-Berry, Susan (Winter 1987). "Linguistic decay in Chontal Mayan: the speech of semispeakers". Anthropological Linguistics 29 (4): 332341. JSTOR 30028108.
    5. ^ Dorian, Nancy C. (September 1978). "Fate of morphological complexity in language death:
    Evidence from East Sutherland Gaelic". Language 54 (3): 590609. doi:10.1353/lan.1978.0024.
    JSTOR 412788.

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