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Review published In:
Language Problems and Language Planning
Vol.
25:2
(2001) ► pp.
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Book review
Daniel
Nettle
.
Linguistic Diversity
Oxford:
Oxford University Press
,
1999
.
xi+168 pp.
Reviewed by
Humphrey Tonkin
|
University of Hartford
Published online: 21 January 2002
https://doi.org/10.1075/lplp.25.2.10ton
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