The Salient Factors That Contribute to Language Shift and Language Death.

Abstract

This research aims to shed light on Algeria's language shift and language death due to a variety of factors, including historical, political, socio-cultural, and socio-cultural. It also investigates the challenges and reasons that contributed to this reality, such as linguistic interference, bilingualism, multilingualism, and Arabization. North African nations have a rich linguistic diversity, including national and official languages, as well as foreign languages, which mix and merge to form a distinct linguistic stance. Mingling is the native tongue of the Algerian people and is a combination of several languages at the time. Research has shown that there is little preservation in terms of the nation's linguistic legacy, leading to language shift and language death.