"killer language" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "The phrase was first used by Anne Pakir in 1991 in reference to English.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "killer languages",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "killer language (plural killer languages)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Linguistics",
          "orig": "en:Linguistics",
          "parents": [
            "Language",
            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Danny Hieber, Mises Daily, Why Do Languages Die?",
          "text": "It is only when the state adopts a trade language as official and, in a fit of linguistic nationalism, foists it upon its citizens, that trade languages become \"killer languages.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A dominant and prestigious language which gradually causes extinction of other, especially minor languages."
      ],
      "id": "en-killer_language-en-noun-NubN7bmW",
      "links": [
        [
          "linguistics",
          "linguistics"
        ],
        [
          "dominant",
          "dominant"
        ],
        [
          "prestigious",
          "prestigious"
        ],
        [
          "extinction",
          "extinction"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(linguistics) A dominant and prestigious language which gradually causes extinction of other, especially minor languages."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "killer language"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "The phrase was first used by Anne Pakir in 1991 in reference to English.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "killer languages",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "killer language (plural killer languages)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Linguistics"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Danny Hieber, Mises Daily, Why Do Languages Die?",
          "text": "It is only when the state adopts a trade language as official and, in a fit of linguistic nationalism, foists it upon its citizens, that trade languages become \"killer languages.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A dominant and prestigious language which gradually causes extinction of other, especially minor languages."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "linguistics",
          "linguistics"
        ],
        [
          "dominant",
          "dominant"
        ],
        [
          "prestigious",
          "prestigious"
        ],
        [
          "extinction",
          "extinction"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(linguistics) A dominant and prestigious language which gradually causes extinction of other, especially minor languages."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "killer language"
}