linguicide, the deliberate extermination of a language, to juggle languages, to switch between using multiple languages skillfully within a single conversation or context, the flipside of smth, the negative or less desirable aspect of a generally positive situation, a linguistic hotspot, a geographical region with exceptionally high language diversity, including many unique and endangered languages, a marginalized language, language which pushed to the fringes of society, spoken by a minority group and lacking official status or prestige, indispensable, language is one considered absolutely necessary for communication, education, or economic success in a particular region., To scratch the surface, to learn only its most basic, superficial elements without understanding its depth or cultural context, fight tooth and nail, to struggle or defend something with great ferocity and determination, Linguistic revitalization, active effort to increase the number of speakers and use of an endangered language to prevent its death., Anglophone, a person or community whose native or primary language is English, to seem doomed, to appear to be inevitably headed for failure or destruction, exert negative pressure on somebody, to use influence or force in a way that causes stress or harm to a person, to pull back from the brink, to stop a language just before a complete disappearance, assimilate, process when individuals adopt a dominant language and abandon their native one, to go extinct, to cease to exist, dying out completely

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