Assertion: language death | /r/HasSubevent | modern period
Facets:
value: typically
type: DEGREE
value: from the process of cultural assimilation
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: In the modern period (c. 1500 CE–present; following the rise of colonialism), language death has typically resulted from the process of cultural assimilation leading to language shift and the gradual abandonment of a native language in favour of a foreign lingua franca, largely those of European countries.