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Publication details [#49429]

Mutasa, David. 1996. The Problems of Standardizing Spoken Dialects: The Shona Experience. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 27 (1) : 79–93.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
sociology | spoken language | standard1 vs. dialect2
Language as a subject
Shona
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

This article discusses some of the sociological and linguistic problems linked with the standardization of spoken dialects, and Shona in particular.