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Language shift in time of war: the abandonment of Russian in Ukraine

Post-Soviet Affairs
The article demonstrates an impressive shift from Russian to Ukrainian in war-time Ukraine. I rely on nationwide survey data from before and after February 2022 to analyze the scale and structure of the recent change in patterns of language use.
V. Kulyk
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Language shift from Forro to Portuguese: Language ideologies and the symbolic power of Portuguese on São Tomé Island

Lingua, 2019
This article investigates causes of the language shift from Forro to Portuguese around the capital of Sao Tome and Principe from a language ideology and political economy perspective.
Marie-Eve Bouchard
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Shifting Land, Shifting Language

2020
Chapter One provides an overview of the themes of the book and introduces the reader to the people whose lives will be profiled in the coming chapters. It details the disappearance of the French language as well as the ongoing destruction of the land.
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When X doesn’t mark the spot: the intersection of language shift, identity and family language policy

International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2019
This article discusses the reflexive relationship between language shift and identity in the case of Scottish Gaelic on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, demonstrating how (Fishman, Joshua A. 1991. Reversing language shift.
C. Smith-Christmas
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Language maintenance and language shift: community languages in Australia, 1996

People and place, 1998
There is a continuing significant shift to English spoken in the home among Australia’s established community language groups. There are also success stories in language maintenance. Factors influencing language use include the distribution of speakers, the age profile of the community, intermarriage patterns and cultural distance from Anglo ...
M, Clyne, S, Kipp
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Shifting Languages

1998
Indonesian is the national language of a vast, plural nation state, the world's fourth-largest country with a population of over 200 million. Although its use is growing rapidly, and is now spoken by nearly everyone over the age of six, it has almost relatively few native speakers.
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Modeling Language Shift

2023
Languages behave similarly to living species. They display diversity, differentiate in space and time, emerge and disappear. While processes of differentiation happen at a relatively slow rate with a typical timescale of the order of 1,000 years to evolve into different languages, language extinction takes place at a substantially faster rate.
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Ainu language shift

2019
This chapter provides an overview of Ainu language research as well as preservation and revitalization initiatives from the past to the present. First, it reviews pertinent research on Ainu language shift in English, Japanese and more importantly in Ainu. It also discusses the political nature surrounding determining a concrete number of Ainu speakers,
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