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Publication details [#44260]

Mugaddam, Abdel Rahim Hamid. 2006. Language maintenance and shift in Sudan: the case of migrant ethnic groups in Khartoum. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 181 : 123–136.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

This paper examines language maintenance and shift among migrant ethnic minority groups in Khartoum (Sudan). Notwithstanding a positive attitude towards their ethnic languages, many younger-generation migrants made a shift to Arabic as their primary language.