Definitions
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- noun The
death of alanguage , either from natural or political causes.
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Examples
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- The way the Turkish government has and is "linguicide" the Kurdish language (4).
unknown title 2009
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- The way the Turkish government has and is "linguicide" the Kurdish language (4).
unknown title 2009
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Let us, however, examine how the linguicide of the digital era has also devastated the Muslim ethos.
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Let us, however, examine how the linguicide of the digital era has also devastated the Muslim ethos.
zardoz commented on the word linguicide
Linguicide, literally, is th killing of a language, but metaphorical usage of th term can describe either th inadvertent butchery of good usage by an inadept speaker or th deliberate orwellian perversion or misconstruction of th vocabulary of a language as can b seen n xpressions of soidisant political correctness. Also, n keeping wth usage of more common -cide's, a linguicide may also b an agent responsibl for linguistic murder.
December 6, 2009