KnowraHeritage languageLinked fromLinked fromThe 14 pages that link to Heritage language, each with the reason it gives.All 14Related 11Narrower topic 1Compared with 2Code-switchingRelated: Heritage-language repertoires often involve switches shaped by family, school, and wider society.Language acquisitionRelated: Heritage speakers may understand a language well while having uneven speaking or literacy skills.Language ideologyRelated: Heritage language maintenance is shaped by beliefs about identity, belonging, and linguistic value.AssimilationRelated: Its continued use can preserve ties that assimilation pressures often weaken.Second-language acquisitionCompared with: Heritage learners can have early exposure and cultural ties, complicating simple categories of second-language learning.Cultural assimilationRelated: Loss of a heritage language can mark both expanded participation and diminished cultural inheritance.BilingualismRelated: Maintaining a family language alongside a dominant one often sustains bilingual ability.MultilingualismRelated: Maintaining it can connect multilingual speakers with family history and community life.Language attritionRelated: Heritage-language speakers often experience uneven exposure and changing abilities across languages.Language immersionRelated: Immersion can strengthen a community language or, in some settings, displace students’ existing language resources.First languageRelated: A first language can become a heritage language when later generations shift toward another language.Hmong languageNarrower topic: Hmong often functions as a heritage language among diaspora descendants.Sylheti languageRelated: Sylheti often functions as a heritage language for diaspora-born speakers.Second languageCompared with: A heritage language can be learned early yet later become less dominant than another language.