Publications

Publication details [#35736]

'Aipolo, 'Anahina and Janet Holmes. 1990. The use of Tongan in New Zealand: Prospects for language maintenance. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 11 (6) : 501–521.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

immigrant | language maintenance | language shift

Language as a subject

English | Tongan

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0143-4632

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study analyzes language proficiency, language use and attitudes to Tongan within the Tongan community in Wellington, New Zealand. Language shift does not appear to have proceeded very far and language maintenance efforts may be succesful.