Sentence examples for death of a language from inspiring English sources

Their language, also called Arawak, is spoken chiefly by older adults, a characteristic that commonly foretells the death of a language.

Unesco's director general, Koichiro Matsuura, said: "The death of a language leads to the disappearance of many forms of intangible cultural heritage, especially the invaluable heritage of traditions and oral expressions of the community that spoke it – from poems and legends to proverbs and jokes".

Typically, the death of a language is discussed in the same vein as the disappearance of moas and passenger pigeons.

Hagège is especially shaky in his early implication that the death of a language deprives people of language itself, a hallmark of being human.

When it comes to the death of a child, no language is enough.

Arthur Miller wrote eloquent essays defending his modern, democratic concept of tragedy; despite its abstract, allegorical quality and portentous language, Death of a Salesman (1949) came close to vindicating his views.

Marie Smith Jones and Michael Krauss were both featured in Elizabeth Kolbert's 2005 article "Last Words," about the history of the Eyak people and the death of their language.

Look, I'm not even writing an article on the second death of dead languages.

Negotiation is the death of language.

Don't feel guilty about your involvement in the slow and painful death of the English language either.

The change of identity can perhaps be explained by the death of the Pictish language, but also important may be Causantín II's alleged Scoticisation of the "Pictish" Church and the trauma caused by Viking invasions, most strenuously felt in the Pictish kingdom's heartland of Fortriu.