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Publication details [#12556]

Boyd, Sally and Sirkku Latomaa. 1999. Fishman's theory of diglossia and bilingualism in the light of language maintenance and shift in the Nordic region. In Extra, Guus and Ludo Verhoeven. Bilingualism and Migration. (Studies on Language Acquisition 14). De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 303–324.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
bilingualism | diglossia | language | language death | language maintenance | minority
Language as a subject
English | Finnish | Turkish | Vietnamese
Person as a subject
Fishman, J.A.

Annotation

It is found that crossgenerational stability of diglossia levels combined with a decrease of bilingualism from the older to the younger generation are precursors to language shift. Also, two instances of minority language maintenance are discussed.