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Endangered Dialect

  • Definition: A dialect that is in danger of dying via (1) the recession of distinguishing dialect features in the face of the encroachment of features from other varieties, or (2) the loss of speakers of the dialect.

    Source: American English, second edition by Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes

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