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Publication details [#32409]

Jacobsen, Birgitte. 2003. Colonial Danish. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 159 : 153–164.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

colonialism | language contact | language status | language variety

Language as a subject

Danish

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

ISBN

0165-2516

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper compares the status of colonial Danish in the three former colonies, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and Iceland and discusses colonial Danish as the variety spoken in Greenland today, the result of language contact.