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Publication details [#29451]

Bauer, Arthur. 1995. Das gleichgewicht der sprachen in der Schweiz. [The equilibrium of languages in Switzerland.] Language Problems and Language Planning 19 (2) : 179–184.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

German

Keywords

language policy | language spread | language use | majority language | minority language

Language as a subject

French | German | Italian | Languages, Rhaeto-Romance | Swiss

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

ISBN

0272-2690

Journal DOI

10.1075/lplp

Annotation

This paper deals with the linguistic situation in multilingual Switzerland, and with the equilibrium of majority and minority languages thanks to the non-preferential treatment of majority groups and the rather well-defined linguistic borders, with exception of Bienne, Fribourg and the Grisons.