Publications

Publication details [#32418]

David, Maya Khemlani. 2003. The Pakistani community in Machang, Kelantan: reasons for language shift. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 161 : 47–54.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialect1 | language shift | language use | minority

Language as a subject

Urdu

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

ISBN

0165-2516

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study demonstrates that both external and internal factors of language shift weaken the linguistic and communicative competence of minority Pakistani Urdu speakers in the language-contact situation of Machang (Kelantan, Malaysia).