 ##  [Language Death](/language-death) 

  ##  [Language Death](https://humanitites.quantumdictionary.io/language-death-0) 

  
 [![Humanities & Arts Dictionary](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2026-01/Humanities%20%26%20Arts.png.webp?itok=4SMNHqFS)](/topic-specific-dictionaries/humanities-arts)


**Humanities &amp; Arts Dictionary**

 
Definition

The terminal stage in which a language ceases to function as a living means of communication because it has lost its last fluent native speakers and no longer undergoes regular intergenerational transmission within a speech community.