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Publication details [#25041]

Hindley, Reg. 1990. The death of the Irish language. Routledge. xxv + 335 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | economics | language death | language spread | minority language

Language as a subject

Irish

Annotation

This book demonstrates that the geographical domain of spoken Irish and the figures on daily use have been largely overestimated, given the underdevelopment of Irish geolinguistics and the over-enthusiasm of Irish language defenders.

Reviewed by

Todd, Loreto. 1992. Review of $The death of the Irish language.

MacLaughlin, J. 1991. Review of $The death of the Irish language.