Publications

Publication details [#51395]

Fierman, William. 2009. Language vitality and paths to revival: contrasting cases of Azerbaijani and Kazakh. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2009 (198) : 75–104.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

education | language dominance | language revival | language use | language vitality

Language as a subject

Azerbaijani | Kazakh | Russian

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study discusses (factors contributing to) the contrasting language vitality and revival paths of the titular languages in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. Whilst the titular language already maintained a larger field of use in Azerbaijan's cities in the Soviet era, it clearly holds a superior status to Russian there in urban educational institutions and in the workplace since independence (1991).