Katoavien
Katoavien is a fictional concept used in speculative fiction and interdisciplinary thought experiments to describe a set of processes that lead to the gradual disappearance or marginalization of a community, language, or cultural practice under modern social, economic, and technological pressures. The term is not standardized and is primarily encountered in authorial world-building and theoretical writing rather than in established sociolinguistic or anthropological terminology.
The coinage of katoavien appears in late 2010s literature and essays as a heuristic for examining how
Katoavien typically encompasses three interacting layers: demographic pressure (out-migration and aging), structural change (shifts in governance,
In fiction, katoavien frequently serves as a plot device or world-building mechanism to illustrate gradual social
Scholars acknowledge katoavien as a useful conceptual tool for exploring complex socio-cultural dynamics, but caution that