Multilingualism is a pervasive phenomenon
worldwide with around 6000 spoken languages in 200 nations. In almost every
country, the presence of more than one language naturally leads to speech
communities of different sizes, with many individuals belonging to these
communities using two or more of them. This occurs independently of the
official status and the educational prevalence of those languages. Therefore,
understanding what mechanisms lead to language extinction and which of them
might ...
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