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Publication details [#20200]

Fishman, Joshua. 1985. The lively life of a `dead' language (or `everyone knows that Yiddish died long ago'). In Fishman, Joshua. The lively life of a `dead' language (or `everyone knows that Yiddish died long ago'). In : 207–222. : 207–222.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
sociolinguistics
Language as a subject
Yiddish

Annotation

On the sociolinguistics of Yiddish.

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