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Publication details [#39630]

Viejo Fernández, Xulio. 2004. Asturian: resurgence and impending demise of a minority language in the Iberian Peninsula. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 170 : 169–190.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language planning | language revival | minority language

Language as a subject

Spanish, Asturian

Place, Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper examines the historical and sociological keys of Asturian language shift as demonstrated by the peculiar situation of Asturian Language Teaching at the University of Oviedo, which has recently been in danger of prohibition.