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Day, Richard R. 1985. The ultimate inequality: Linguistic genocide. In Wolfson, Nessa and Joan Manes, eds. Language of inequality. Mouton. pp. 163–181.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject

Annotation

On a form of language death called 'linguistic genocide', which is the result of cultural contact between two unequal societies (in terms of economic and military strength and international prestige), with special reference to the Hawaiian languages, and to Chamorro.