Linguicide is a rarely used term describing the intentional causing of the death of a language. It is also used as a derogatory term to describe unintentional death of languages through competition and other mechanisms.

Some of the mechanisms leading to the death of languages include:

• imposition or prohibition of a language by state authorities
• linguistic competition (e.g. English vs. French in scientific publications)
• natural decline in populations that speak the language

See also

• Language death
• List of extinct languages
• List of endangered languages
• Extinct language
• Endangered language
• Language policy
• Minority language
• Regional language
• Language revival
• Cultural genocide
• Ethnocide
• Welsh Not

External links

• Kurdish and Linguicide
• Linguicide

Linguistics | Cultural assimilation

Linguizid | Lingvocido | Linguicide | Лінгвоцид