Death Language &

Minority Language
Group 6

Gery Agustian : 180388203043

Aini Kurnia : 180388203077
Nurasikin : 180388203044
Nitamara : 190388203021
Nuryulianingsih : 190388203056
 Death Language

Death language is a language spoken by

fewer and fewer people from time to time
and a dead language is a language that
has no speakers anymore because the
speakers have totally shifted to another
language (language shifting) or because
they live no more.

There are two types of language death :

1) The partial language death

The partial language death is related to the language

shift phenomenon found in the immigrant groups in their
new land.
2) The total language death

The total language death happens when the language has no more speakers left.
The Six Cooclest of
Death Language
1) Latin language

Latin is by far the most well-known dead language.

Though it has been considered a dead language for
centuries, it is still taught in school as an important way
to understand many languages.
2) Coptic

Optic is what remained of the ancient

Egyptian languages. Yes, even
Hieroglyphics! Coptic is a combination
of Hieroglyphics, Demotic, and Hieratic
languages. It was used throughout
Egypt by the Ptolemaic rulers after the
spread of Greek culture throughout the
region. If you want to speak like the
ancient Egyptians did, Coptic is for
you.
3) Biblical Hebrew

Biblical Hebrew is not to be confused with

Modern Hebrew, a language that is still very
much alive. Biblical Hebrew refers to an archaic
form of Hebrew that developed into a literary
and liturgical language around 200 CE. It was
originally spoken by ancient Israelites. It is
currently taught in public schools in Israel, as an
important way to understand modern Hebrew
and the Jewish faith. Since Modern Hebrew was
an evolution of Biblical Hebrew and still contains
many biblical elements, Biblical Hebrew is
relatively easy for native Hebrew speakers to
understand.
4) Sumerian

The ancient Sumerians are most well known for

being the first civilization to invent a system of
writing. Their language fare as well as their
legacy,
5) Akkadian

Akkadian
as it turns out. It was spoken throughout
Mesopotamia from the 3rd to the 1st
millenium BCE. This language spread across
an area that stretched all the way from the
Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. The
Akkad dynasty ruler Sargon led this great
expansion of the Akkadian empire.
6) Sanskrit Language

Sanskrit is the ancient language of

Hinduism, and is used in many religions.
These include Jainism, Buddhism, and
Sikhism. Sanskrit serves as the main
language of a lot of ancient poetry,
drama, and religious texts.
 Language Revitalization

Many languages are close to death, and require active

efforts to keep them alive. These languages can be
important to the cultural history of many communities.
To date, only one successful language revitalization
has taken place: the example of Modern Hebrew, which
was revitalized through great efforts and has
successfully created a new generation of native
speakers.
 Minority language

A minority language is a language spoken by a minority of the population of a territory. Such

people are termed linguistic minorities or language minorities.
1) International law and politics

Europe
In most European countries, the minority languages are defined by
legislation or constitutional documents and afforded some form of
official support.

Canada
In Canada the term "minority language" is used in the Constitution of
Canada, in the heading above section 23 of the Canadian Charter of
Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees educational rights to official
language minority communities.
2) Politics

Minority languages may be marginalised within nations

for a number of reasons. These include having a
relatively small number of speakers, a decline in the
number of speakers, and popular belief that these
speakers are uncultured, or primitive, or the minority
language is a dialect of the dominant language.

Controversy

Views differ as to whether the protection of official

languages by a state representing the majority
speakers violates the human rights of minority
speakers.
3.) Languages lacking recognition in some countries

These are languages that have the status of a national language and are
spoken by the majority population in at least one country, but lack
recognition in other countries, even where there is a significant
minority linguistic community:

Albanian
Bulgarian
German
Hungarian
Macedonian
Polish
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
4) Significant languages having no majority of speakers in any country

Linguistic communities that form no majority of population in any country, but whose
language has the status of an official language in at least one country:
Tamil
Marathi
Berber
Kurdish
Afrikaans
Catalan
Dutch Low Saxon
Galician
Limburgish
Welsh
Basque
Frisian Languages
Irish
Maori
Romans
Cherokee
Scottish Gaelic
Sardinian
Corsican
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