The Romansch language has five very different dialects.

Unless something is done, about half the world's languages are going to die out.

Language death may be caused by natural or man-made disasters, like earthquakes and war.

We ought to be concerned when a language is threatened with extinction.

The Ainu language had only eight fluent speakers left.

The growth of English is killing other languages.

Linguists say there are about half a dozen killer languages, apart from English.

Romansch is increasingly used in its spoken form.

The young wona's killer has not yet been found.

A linguist is someone who speaks or studies languages.

Speakers of a minority language sometimes stop using it in favour of a more popular language.

Language murder happens when speakers of a minority language stop using it.

New government policies in Japan saved the Ainu language.

You can't recreate a spoken language when it is dead.

We replayed the recording several times but couldn't hear the message.

When she retold the story, some of the details had changed.

The students rewrote the project after they had corrected the mistakes.

Romansch Grishum now has official status in parts of Switzerland.

What does the term “language murder” mean?