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Publication details [#49421]

Prabhakaran, Varijakshi. 1997. The Parameters of Maintenance of the Telugu Language in South Africa. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 28 (1) : 51–80.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and culture | language change | language dominance | language maintenance | religion

Language as a subject

Telugu

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper discusses how the minority South African Indian Andhras or Telugu speakers are shifting their EMT towards English. Some Andhras speakers try to maintain their EMT through their religio-cultural practices, in the face of socio-economic pressure from the dominant languages.