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Publication details [#20213]

Fought, John. 1985. Patterns of sociolinguistic inequality in Mesoamerica. In Fishman, Joshua. The lively life of a `dead' language (or `everyone knows that Yiddish died long ago'). In : 207–222. : 21–39.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

sociolinguistics | traditional society

Annotation

On some traits of Mesoamerican sociolinguistics, on the situation in three Mayan towns, on possible patterns of inequality in pre-Spanish Mesoamerica, and on a possible general classification of complex speech communities.