Rememberer
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In linguistics
, a rememberer is a person who knows individual words or phrases (sometimes entire texts) of a dying or dead language
, but cannot use the language productively. This is contrasted with fluent
or full speakers, who have a good command of the language, and semi-speakers, who have a partial command of it.
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
, a rememberer is a person who knows individual words or phrases (sometimes entire texts) of a dying or dead language
Language death
In linguistics, language death is a process that affects speech communities where the level of linguistic competence that speakers possess of a given language variety is decreased, eventually resulting in no native and/or fluent speakers of the variety...
, but cannot use the language productively. This is contrasted with fluent
Fluency
Fluency is the property of a person or of a system that delivers information quickly and with expertise.-Speech:...
or full speakers, who have a good command of the language, and semi-speakers, who have a partial command of it.