Publications

Publication details [#51467]

Mafela, Lily. 2009. Changing livelihoods, language use and language shift amongst Basarwa of Botswana. The International Journal of Multilingualism 6 (3) : 229–245.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language shift | language status | language use | social status

Language as a subject

Languages, Basarwa | Setswana

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This study discusses how the low status Basarwa of Botswana had to appropriate the dominant national Setswana language in order to mediate their socio-economic marginalisation, and how this deleteriously affected their Basarwa minority languages and overall socio-cultural identity.