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What Causes a Language to Disappear?

Imagine your family speaks a special way of talking, but one day, no one talks that way anymore. A language disappears when no one uses it anymore. It's like a secret only a few people know.

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Examples

  1. A group of kids learn to speak Spanish at school and forget their grandparents' old language.
  2. When a village moves away, they don't bring their special way of speaking with them.
  3. An elder speaks a forgotten tongue but no one listens.

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