1. Second, the more gradual process of language death may occur over several generations. 2. Language death is the phenomenon whereby languages die or become extinct.3. The Liburnian language eventually was replaced by Latin, undergoing language death probably during Late Antiquity. 4. He proposes that language death improves communication by ensuring more people speak the same language. 5. Often, especially historically, governments have tried to promote language death , not wishing to have minority languages. 6. When a linguistic community ceases to use their original language, language death is said to occur. 7. Wappo's language death is attributed to the use of English in schools and economic situations such as the workplace. 8. Around the same time, Dressler worked on Breton language from a phonological, text linguistic and sociolinguistic perspective ('language death '). 9. On language death , Rooi observed : " If a person who speaks our language dies then our language also dies. 10. Her study into the decline of Gaelic in East Sutherland is considered an important and detailed study of language death .