Exploring the Causes of Language Death: A Review Paper

This review paper is aimed at exploring the causes of language death. To be more specific, this paper seeks to describe the language death, and the major reasons behind the death of a language. The data collected through different online journal articles, websites, blogs, and social media. After critically evaluating the plethora of resources, it has been revealed that culture, bilingualism, migration and natural disaster respectively played a deteriorating role in language death. In addition, by looking to the current situation, recommendation can be proposed for researchers to carryout researches on the factors contributed to the language lost particularly in a society, region, and country.
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