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ghost languages

ghost languages is the plural of ghost language.

Meaning of ghost language

Noun

ghost language (plural ghost languages)

  1. A language which has lost its speakers.
    • Of the 250 or so Aboriginal languages once spoken in Australia, two-thirds are extinct or moribund. Coastal languages were usually the first to go, with settlement patterns matching patterns of extinction. In Western Australia, the former of approximately 110 Aboriginal languages, 45 were presumed...2000, Juliette Blevins, Nhanda: An Aboriginal Language of Western Australia (Oceanic linguistics special publication; 30), Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page ix
  2. A posited natural language which does not actually exist.

Questions about ghost languages

What is ghost languages the plural of?
Ghost languages is the plural of ghost language.

Words near ghost languages in the dictionary

  1. ghost kitchens
  2. ghost knifefish
  3. ghost knifefishes
  4. ghost labor
  5. ghost language
  6. ghost languages
  7. ghost light
  8. ghost lore
  9. ghost mall
  10. ghost mark
  11. ghost markings

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