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Publication details [#28978]

Matsumori, Akiko. 1995. Ryukuan: past, present, and future. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 16 (1 - 2) : 19–44.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | dialectology | language contact | language shift | vernacular

Language as a subject

Japanese | Ryukyuan

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0143-4632

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper deals with the Ryukyuan (southern Japanese archipelago) language shift towards Standard Japanese and the present situation of bilingualism, which clearly illustrates the process of language contact and language change.