Which risk increases as the intergenerational transmission of a minority language declines within a community facing economic marginalization?

💡 Explanation

As intergenerational transmission weakens, children are less likely to acquire the minority language, therefore language shift accelerates toward the dominant language, because social and economic pressures favor it, rather than lexical borrowing or code-switching, which are coping mechanisms but do not halt the overall shift.

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