That said, the balance of languages shifts constantly in these pieces.
The independent status of Yucatecan is evident in that all Yucatecan languages shifted proto-Mayan *[t] to [tʃ] in word-final position.
Here in Pondicherry, small-town India, the surf instructor speaks four languages, shifting between French and English for clients and Spanish and Tamil with his fellow teachers.
A spokesman for the innovation department played down the language shift in comments to the ABC.
The Songhai speech community probably absorbed speakers from various other linguistic communities through a process of primary language shift.
"The idea would be that we do have very minor lineages that look like they came to Bismarck about 3,500 years ago and may have caused a language shift".
This study investigates the effects of language shift on voice source and perceptual voice quality.
Language shift from native (L1) to foreign language (L2) may affect speaker's voice production and induce vocal fatigue.
Language endangerment occurs in situations of language shift, where speakers abandon their own language in favor of another, usually more socially and economically dominant, language.
This system was described by Kartika (2016) to account for language shift in multilingual curriculum genres, but is generalised here to describe modality shifting across all systems of pedagogic modalities, including multiple languages.
A particularly difficult area of language status policy is that of reversing language shift, particularly so if such policy is undertaken only when intergenerational mother-tongue transmission has become relatively rare.
