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Publication details [#35150]

Dixon, R.M.W. 1991. The declining language situation: The decline of Dyirbal, 1963-1989. Language in Society 20 (2) : 183–200.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language attitude | language death | language use | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Dyirbal | English

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper deals with the decline of the Dyirbal language in the period ranging from 1963 to 1989, with the social situations and attitudes of speakers, and with changes in language identification.