<![CDATA[This article tries to explain the language extinction
phenomena in Indonesia particularly in accordance with
factors that can cause the language extinction and its
ethnolinguistic implications. There are some factors that can
be identified as the reasons so that many languages are in the
threshold of extinction. Those are the effects of major
language, bilingual or multilingual community, globalization,
migration, intermarriage, natural disaster, lack of
appreciation towards ethnic language, lack of communication
intensity using ethnic language in many domains, economic,
and bahasa. Meanwhile, the language extinction can
ethnolinguistically bring some implications. By the extinction
of a language it could be the loss of knowledge on the internal
aspects of it, that is, its structure. On the other side, it can
bring implications to a loss of local knowledge and other
cultural wealth of a certain ethnic using the language because
they can only be known through the language used by its
community, unless the language has been documented and
revitalized.
Keywords: extinction, ethnic language, ethnolinguistic]]>
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