Publications

Publication details [#28941]

Shameem, Nikhat. 1994. The Wellington Indo-Fijians: Language shift among teenage new immigrants. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 15 (5) : 399–418.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

immigrant | L2-acquisition | language maintenance | language shift | minority language

Language as a subject

English | Hindi, Fiji

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0143-4632

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper deals with language maintenance among young Indo-Fijian immigrants in Wellington (New Zealand) and with language shift from Fiji Hindi to English.