linguicide

Used in linguistics, Speakers of a language start to use another language to the point where it starts to be used in the home and/or the next generation or subsequent generations do not learn the language. When the last speaker of a language dies so does the language. That language can never be heard again in a natural setting.

In California alone, linguicide is committed yearly. It's such a shame!

by Imidast April 23, 2008

lingocide

Destruction of Standard American English with bastardized silly made up words. Fo'shizzy. Should be punishable by Sister Mary Catherine using a ruler on your knuckles and at least some time incarcerated.

Heaving moobs and a sweaty lip, Jason glanced about slit-eyed, hunched down and committed the lingocide, furtively, deliberately.

by johnnycooks December 6, 2009

languacide

The murder of any luanguage by illiterate or uneducated people.

I commited languacide by using the urban dictionary to learn how to speak.

by mastercrapper123 September 29, 2010

Linkicide

The (usually unintentional) killing of Link in the Nintendo console game "Legend of Zelda".

"In Wind Waker I fell from a great height and commited Linkicide! Now I have to start from the last save point."

by Braveheart's thirst for blood November 8, 2005

linguacide

use of depraved words, thus debasing a language.

Use frigging or pejotative words to the nth degree and a linguacide will outcrop.

by uttam maharjan September 29, 2010

linguicize

to put an abstract or largely emotional idea into words

I struggled to linguicize my frustrations to my partner

by bdsmpretentiocrat November 24, 2025