Editing Endangered language (section)

===Marginalization and endangerment===
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Among the causes of language endangerment cultural, political and economic [[marginalization]] accounts for most of the world's language endangerment. Scholars distinguish between several types of marginalization: Economic dominance negatively affects minority languages when poverty leads people to migrate towards the cities or to other countries, thus dispersing the speakers. Cultural dominance occurs when literature and higher education is only accessible in the majority language. Political dominance occurs when education and political activity is carried out exclusively in a majority language.

Historically, in colonies, and elsewhere where speakers of different languages have come into contact, some languages have been considered superior to others: often one language has attained a dominant position in a country. Speakers of endangered languages may themselves come to associate their language with negative values such as poverty, illiteracy and social stigma, causing them to wish to adopt the dominant language that is associated with social and economical progress and [[modernity]].<ref name="Handbook"/> Immigrants moving into an area may lead to the endangerment of the autochthonous language.<ref>Paris, Brian. The impact of immigrants on language vitality: A case study of Awar and Kayan. ''Language and Linguistics in Melanesia'' 32.2: 62-75. [http://www.langlxmelanesia.com/LLM%20Vol.%2032_2_Paris.pdf Web access] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020024118/https://www.langlxmelanesia.com/LLM%20Vol.%2032_2_Paris.pdf |date=2020-10-20 }}.</ref>

Dialects and accents have seen similar levels of endangerment during the 21st century due to similar reasons.<ref>{{cite web | last=Boaz | first=Judd | title=As Chinese dialects decline, Australia offers a safe haven for some endangered languages | website=ABC News | date=January 5, 2024 | url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-06/takeover-melbourne-teen-and-the-cantonese-language/103069564 | access-date=June 4, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last=Pomeroy | first=Ross | title=Are America's distinct accents dying out? | website=Big Think | date=September 25, 2023 | url=https://bigthink.com/high-culture/americas-accents-dying/ | access-date=June 4, 2024}}</ref><ref name="m330">{{cite web | last=Economist"] | first=["The | title=Japan’s most endangered languages face extinction | website=The Economist | date=December 15, 2022 | url=https://www.economist.com/asia/2022/12/15/japans-most-endangered-languages-face-extinction | access-date=June 4, 2024}}</ref><ref name="u493">{{cite web | last=Romero | first=Simon | last2=Rios | first2=Desiree | title=New Mexico Is Losing a Form of Spanish Spoken Nowhere Else on Earth | website=The New York Times | date=April 9, 2023 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/us/new-mexico-spanish.html | access-date=June 4, 2024}}</ref>