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Shifting towards the institutional language?

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Language Policy, 2022
Early on, parents in multilingual families start moulding their children’s linguistic environment, a process which is believed to be influenced by several external and family-related factors. The present study examines which factors correlate with parents’ efforts to maximise the institutional language (here Dutch) input in the home.
Hollebeke, I., Agirdag, O., Struys, E.
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Pergeseran Bahasa Daerah Pada Anak-Anak di Kuala Tanjung Sumatra Utara

open access: yesRanah: Jurnal Kajian Bahasa, 2018
This research aims to describe the condition of regional language shift among children in Kuala Tanjung. Afterwards, it will be studied whether the attitude factor and the parents’ role affect the use of regional language.
NFN Sahril
doaj   +1 more source

Language ecology, language endangerment, and relict languages: Case studies from Adamawa (Cameroon-Nigeria)

open access: yesOpen Linguistics, 2021
As a contribution to the more general discussion on causes of language endangerment and death, we describe the language ecologies of four related languages (Bà Mambila [mzk]/[mcu], Sombә (Somyev or Kila) [kgt], Oumyari Wawa [www], Njanga (Kwanja) [knp ...
Connell Bruce   +4 more
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Recycling a Mixed Language: Posha in Turkey

open access: yesLanguages, 2023
We provide a sketch grammar of a new bilingual mixed language based on data gathered through interaction with its last native speakers. The language, which we call Posha of Çankırı, is spoken in central Turkey.
Melike Uzum   +2 more
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Language shift

open access: yes, 2023
Language shift has always existed. Conquests were the first historically attested cause of language shifts, then migrations prompted these types of changes, and today it is mainly language diffusion that triggers this language contact phenomenon. There are some promoting and/or impeding factors for shift, but not a single condition evokes the same ...
openaire   +1 more source

Linguistic commodification in tourism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Drawing on fieldwork conducted between 2002 and 2012 in Switzerland, Catalunya and different zones of francophone Canada in sites related to heritage and cultural tourism, we argue that tourism, especially i n multilingual peripheries, is a key site for ...
Duchêne, Alexandre   +2 more
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Internal migration and changes in language repertoire among Sindhi youth

open access: yesRussian Journal of Linguistics, 2023
Today many young members of the Sindhi community are migrating from villages to cities in Pakistan, where the national language, Urdu and the co-official language, English, dominates.
Muhammad Hassan Abbasi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Family Language Policy in a Hakka Community in Sabah, Malaysia

open access: yesJournal of Modern Languages, 2020
Hakka has been the lingua franca used among various Chinese groups in Sabah, Malaysia, since the 1950s. Economic development and de-emphasis on ethnic identity within Chinese communities throughout Malaysia is now forcing Sabah Hakkas to confront ...
Chih-I Liao
doaj   +3 more sources

LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE AND LANGUAGE SHIFT [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In language shifts, ancestral tongues are abandoned by their speakers and replaced, in one way or another, by dominant languages. Such changes in language use will ultimately lead to the irreversible suppression of the world's language diversity ...
Khalfalla, Hamza Aabeed
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Language shift: analysing language use in multilingual classroom interactions

open access: yesFunctional Linguistics, 2018
This paper offers a framework and set of tools for analysing the use of language shift in multilingual classroom discourse. The term language shift refers to the use of multiple languages in all types of interactions, including teaching and learning. The
Harni Kartika-Ningsih, D. Rose
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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