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To examine linguistic and non-linguistic approaches to preventing language death and sustained language shift in threatened language communities.

August 16, 2026Open Access

Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Approaches to Language-Death Prevention: A Conceptual and Thematic Analysis

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To examine linguistic and non-linguistic approaches to preventing language death and sustained language shift in threatened language communities.
Conducted a conceptual and thematic analysis synthesizing contemporary scholarship, international policy frameworks, and foundational models of reversing language shift.
Analyzed technical linguistic interventions alongside socio-institutional mechanisms using international, African, and Nigerian case studies.
Linguistic documentation, corpus expansion, and archives preserve language data but do not independently restore everyday social communication.
Sustainable prevention relies on intergenerational transmission, community governance, public visibility, and legal and economic integration across daily social domains.
Formulated the Integrated Language Continuity Framework, which combines diagnosis, intergenerational transmission, domain expansion, institutional support, and continuous evaluation.

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Conceptual analysis uncovers core linguistic and social drivers of language preservation in threatened speech communities, indicating documentation must pair with active social use.

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Isidore Anayochukwu (Ph.D) Onyenwe (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a817a80f2fb91fc834ae516 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21954746

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Conceptual analysis uncovers core linguistic and social drivers of language preservation in threatened speech communities, indicating documentation must pair with active social use.

Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Approaches to Language-Death Prevention: A Conceptual and Thematic Analysis

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Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Approaches to Language-Death Prevention: A Conceptual and Thematic Analysis

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