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Language Planning
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 5:2] 1982
► pp. 27–35

Bilingual language policies in a multilingual nation

Singapore

| Monash University
Published online: 1 January 1982
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https://doi.org/10.1075/aral.5.2.04pla
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