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Publication details [#42857]

Vamarasi, Marit. 2005. Factors Favoring and Disfavoring Obsolescence in the South Pacific: A Case Study of Rotuman. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 172 : 79–90.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and society | language maintenance | language spread | language use

Language as a subject

Rotuman

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This article discusses the viability of the Rotuman language to offer an overview of the factors influencing language maintenance and loss in insular South Pacific regions.