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Which Term Is Used to Describe the Extinction of Languages

Question 12

Question 12

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Which term is used to describe the extinction of languages that have very few speakers?


A) linguistic shift
B) Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
C) language loss
D) historical linguistics

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