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Linguicide

Linguicide is an intentional annihilation of a language. 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:

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Some authors use the term linguicide to refer to the way language is used. Linguicide is understood as a distortion of the language to beautify the truth (e.g. for political correctness). For example, "killing civilians" described as "collateral damage" would be a form of "linguicide".