Publications

Publication details [#44243]

Musgrave, Simon and Mark Aakhus. 2006. Language and religion: a case study of two Ambonese communities. International Journal of the Sociology of Language : 179–194.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

colonialism | language and culture | language loss | language maintenance | religion

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper discusses why Amboinese Muslim villages in Maluku have retained their indigenous languages, whilst Christian villages have not, sketching the historical and sociological background of this difference.