Vocabulary 11

endangered

• might die soon

• already dead

extinct

• no longer existing

• very old

disappears

• stops being useful

• stops being used

powerful

• strong

• easy to learn

replaces

• changes for something else

• stops

linguists

• people who speak the same language

• people who study the science of language

preserve

• save

• lose

native language

• a language only old people speak

• a language that belongs to the place of one's birth

billingual

• speaking one language

• speaking two languages