From the LA Times:
Karen Leonard, a historian and anthropologist at UC Irvine and author of the book South Asian Americans, agreed. "It's going to die out as a home language in this country by the third generation, probably," Leonard said. "Sometimes the kids marry within the community, but they may not, and since India has 19 or more vernacular languages, even if they marry another Indian, it might be a totally different language."

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