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Language shift and Sign language

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Difference between Language shift and Sign language

Language shift vs. Sign language

Language shift, also known as language transfer or language replacement or language assimilation, is the process whereby a community of speakers of a language shifts to speaking a completely different language, usually over an extended period of time. Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use manual communication to convey meaning.

Similarities between Language shift and Sign language

Language shift and Sign language have 5 things in common (in Unionpedia): American English, Endangered language, English language, Great Plains, Language.

American English

American English (AmE, AE, AmEng, USEng, en-US), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.

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Endangered language

An endangered language, or moribund language, is a language that is at risk of falling out of use as its speakers die out or shift to speaking another language.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Great Plains

The Great Plains (sometimes simply "the Plains") is the broad expanse of flat land (a plain), much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland, that lies west of the Mississippi River tallgrass prairie in the United States and east of the Rocky Mountains in the U.S. and Canada.

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Language

Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; and a language is any specific example of such a system.

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Language shift and Sign language Comparison

Language shift has 285 relations, while Sign language has 291. As they have in common 5, the Jaccard index is 0.87% = 5 / (285 + 291).

References

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