Publications

Publication details [#42988]

Vari-Bogiri, Hannah. 2005. A Sociolinguistic Survey of Araki: A Dying Language of Vanuatu. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 26 (1) : 52–66.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language change | language death | language revival | language shift | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Araki

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This article paper discusses causes underlying the gradual decline of Araki, a dying Vanuatu language, and community attitudes towards this change. Furthermore it proposes a model for Araki reviving.