heritageLanguageShift
P4295
predicate
Indicates a change over time in which a community or individual moves away from using their ancestral or heritage language toward another dominant language.
Aliases (1)
- historicalLanguageShift ×4
Sample triples (9)
| Subject | Object |
|---|---|
| Bukharan Jews | from Bukhori to English in the United States → |
| Bukharan Jews | from Bukhori to Hebrew in Israel → |
| Bukharan Jews | from Bukhori to Russian in Soviet period → |
| English American | largely monolingual in English in contemporary generations → |
| Flemings | shift from regional dialects to standardized Dutch ("historicalLanguageShift") → |
| Flemish Americans | from Dutch to English over generations → |
| Icelandic Canadians | from Icelandic to English ("historicalLanguageShift") → |
| Ingrian Finns | from Ingrian Finnish to Russian ("historicalLanguageShift") → |
| Lowlands | from Gaelic to Scots and English ("historicalLanguageShift") → |