Assertion: linguist's language | /r/CapableOf | become extinct
Facets:
value: in the near future
type: TEMPORAL
value: more often
type: DEGREE
value: within the next century
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Linguists often place their documentation in online databases like a museum to preserve languages that may become extinct in the near future.
text: An endangered language is one that is likely to become extinct in the near future.
text: Unless current trends are reversed, these endangered languages will become extinct within the next century.
text: Many other languages are no longer being learned by new generations of children or by new adult speakers; these languages will become extinct when their last speaker dies.
text: Far more often, however, languages become extinct when a community finds itself under pressure to integrate with a larger or more powerful group.