How exactly do languages die?
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Imagine ten people speak a language that only one person ever taught anyone. They are the only ten people ever to know that language since their teacher died. Two of them are killed in tragic accidents when they are young. Four of them move to a new place and learn the native language there, when they have children they teach them the new language because it’s easier for them. The remaining four people never have children. After the original ten speakers of the language pass away without having taught the language to anyone new, nobody else ever speaks that language. It has died.
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