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The 11 pages that link to Language attrition, each with the reason it gives.

• Language shiftRelated: As a language recedes from daily life, speakers may lose fluency and vocabulary.

• Language acquisitionCompared with: Acquisition can be followed by loss when a language becomes less accessible in daily life.

• BilingualismRelated: Unequal practice can change a bilingual person's proficiency over time.

• Language deathRelated: Attrition can weaken fluency among remaining speakers as opportunities to use the language shrink.

• Heritage languageCompared with: Attrition describes a possible loss of heritage-language ability, not the language’s social identity.

• Language educationRelated: It complicates assumptions that learning gains persist without continued opportunities to use a language.

• Critical period hypothesisRelated: It separates difficulty acquiring language later from loss of language already learned.

• Language learningCompared with: It describes declining language ability rather than its acquisition.

• First languageRelated: A first language may weaken when another language dominates daily life.

• Second languageRelated: A once-learned second language can weaken when it is used less often.

• Giuseppe Gasparo MezzofantiCompared with: His reported command invites questions about whether knowledge remained equally strong across languages.