Publications

Publication details [#42993]

Al-Khatib, Mahmoud A. and Mohammed N. Al-Ali. 2005. Language and Cultural Maintenance Among the Gypsies of Jordan. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 26 (3) : 187–215.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and culture | language maintenance | language shift | language use | minority language

Language as a subject

Arabic | Gypsy

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper examines language and cultural maintenance among Jordan Gypsies in order to trace how various social parameters affect their use of both Gypsy and Arabic.