Publications

Publication details [#48963]

Mustajoki, Arto, Ekaterina Protassova and Abdykady Orusbaev. 2008. Multilingualism, Russian Language and Education in Kyrgyzstan. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 11 (3-4) : 476–500.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

education | language policy | language use | multilingualism | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Kyrgyz | Russian

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This sociolinguistic study discusses language policy in Kyrgyzstan and the current role of Russian and Kyrgyz in this multinational, multilingual republic with a high level of ethnic tolerance.