Publications

Publication details [#48760]

Tosco, Mauro and Graziano Savà. 2008. “Ex Uno Plura”: the uneasy road of Ethiopian languages toward standardization. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2008 (191) : 111–139.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language policy | official language | orthography | standardization

Language as a subject

Languages, Ethiopian

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper addresses the difficulties regarding the standardization and Ausbauization of Ethiopian languages: the selection of an official variety, orthographic choices, modern technical vocabulary elaboration, and production of written material of high-quality.