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Language Maintenance and Language Death
2012This book provides the first extensive description of Texas Alsatian, a critically-endangered Texas German dialect, as spoken in Medina County in the 21 st century. The dialect was brought to Texas in the 1840s by colonists recruited by French entrepreneur Henri Castro and has been preserved ...
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Language Maintenance and Language Shift in Dominica
Caribbean Quarterly, 1982(1982). Language Maintenance and Language Shift in Dominica. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 41-51.
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Language maintenance and language shift in Taiwan
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1988Abstract When the Nationalist government first took over administrative control of Taiwan in 1945, the major languages spoken by the people of Taiwan were the Chinese dialects Hakka and Southern Min, and Japanese. A national language, Mandarin, has since then been actively promoted.
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Language Problems and Language Planning, 2017
AbstractPakistan is a multilingual country with six major and over 59 minor languages. However, the languages used by the domains of power, (government, corporate sector, media and education), are English and Urdu. Compared to the other regional languages in Pakistan, the Sindhi language has a more emancipated position in the state-run schools and some
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AbstractPakistan is a multilingual country with six major and over 59 minor languages. However, the languages used by the domains of power, (government, corporate sector, media and education), are English and Urdu. Compared to the other regional languages in Pakistan, the Sindhi language has a more emancipated position in the state-run schools and some
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The Ecology of Language Maintenance
Urban Affairs Quarterly, 1981Three factors have been identified as affecting one's ability to maintain his/her minority mother-tongue in a metropolitan area: proportion the minority mother-tongue group forms of the total metropolitan population, its degree of residential segregation, and the absolute number of people in the minority mother-tongue group. Each factor is an indicator
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Parables in Language Maintenance
The Aboriginal Child at School, 1990The maintenance, or in some cases revival, of Aboriginal languages has become an important issue to Aboriginal people, and should be an important issue in Aboriginal schools if local people show concern about it. There is good reason for this concern. Predictions vary among linguists about how vulnerable Aboriginal languages are.
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Language Death and Language Maintenance
Sociolinguistica, 1990N. Denison, J. Tragut
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