killer language

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A dominant and prestigious language which gradually causes extinction of other, especially minor languages.
    — It is only when the state adopts a trade language as official and, in a fit of linguistic nationalism, foists it upon its citizens, that trade languages become "killer languages."

词形变化

killer languages plural

词源

The phrase was first used by Anne Pakir in 1991 in reference to English.
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