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Publication details [#29505]

Fettes, Mark. 1996. The Esperanto community: A quasi-ethnic linguistic minority? Language Problems and Language Planning 20 (1) : 53–59.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

artificial language | language status | language use | minority language | sociology

Language as a subject

Esperanto

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

ISBN

0272-2690

Journal DOI

10.1075/lplp

Annotation

This paper deals with the sociology of linguistic minorities, in particular that of the Esperanto speech community. Survey data suggest that Esperanto is primarily used for informal oral communication, and, secondarily, for informal or semi-formal written communication.