or full speakers, who have a good command of the language, and semi-speakers, who have a partial command of it. The distinction between fluent speakers and rememberers is important in fieldwork, but accurately determining where a member of a language community falls on the speaker-rememberer continuum can be challenging.

Passive speakers

A passive speaker (also referred to as a receptive bilingual or passive bilingual) has had enough exposure to a language in childhood

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