- Engels Nederlands
- dialect = dialect
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The Romansch language has five very different dialects.
dialect
- die out = uitsterven
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Unless something is done, about half the world's languages are going to die out.
uitsterven
- disaster = ramp
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Language death may be caused by natural or man-made disasters, like earthquakes and war.
ramp
- extinction = uitsterven
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We ought to be concerned when a language is threatened with extinction.
uitsterven
- fluent = vloeiend
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The Ainu language had only eight fluent speakers left.
vloeiend
- growth = groei / uitbreiding
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The growth of English is killing other languages.
groei / uitbreiding
- half a dozen = zes
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Linguists say there are about half a dozen killer languages, apart from English.
zes
- increasingly = in toenemende mate
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Romansch is increasingly used in its spoken form.
in toenemende mate
- killer = moordenaar
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The young wona's killer has not yet been found.
moordenaar
- linguist = taalkundige / linquist
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A linguist is someone who speaks or studies languages.
taalkundige / linquist
- minority = minderheid
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Speakers of a minority language sometimes stop using it in favour of a more popular language.
minderheid
- murder = moord
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Language murder happens when speakers of a minority language stop using it.
moord
- policies = beleid
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New government policies in Japan saved the Ainu language.
beleid
- recreate = nieuw leven inblazen
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You can't recreate a spoken language when it is dead.
nieuw leven inblazen
- replay = opnieuw afspelen
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We replayed the recording several times but couldn't hear the message.
opnieuw afspelen
- retold = opnieuw vertellen
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When she retold the story, some of the details had changed.
opnieuw vertellen
- rewrote = herschrijven
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The students rewrote the project after they had corrected the mistakes.
herschrijven
- status = status
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Romansch Grishum now has official status in parts of Switzerland.
status
- term = term
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What does the term “language murder” mean?
term