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What cultural feature leads to a language being classified as endangered or dying?

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States that previously listed the language as their official language have become part of a country using a different language.

States that previously listed the language as their official language have become part of a country using a different language.

Parents who speak the language are unable or unwilling to teach it to their own children.

Parents who speak the language are unable or unwilling to teach it to their own children.

States that previously listed the language as their institutional language have ceased to exist as independent states.

States that previously listed the language as their institutional language have ceased to exist as independent states.

Researchers determine that the language’s working vocabulary is too small to justify treating it as a language.

Researchers determine that the language’s working vocabulary is too small to justify treating it as a language.

Researchers determine that the language has no literary tradition of poetry and narrative.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Parents who speak the language are unable or unwilling to teach it to their own children.

Explanation: Loss of intergenerational transmission (children not learning the language) is the key cultural feature that makes a language endangered or dying.