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Publication details [#52156]

Barnes, Lawrie and Kobus van Aswegen. 2008. An investigation into the maintenance of the Maale language in Ethiopia. African Identities 6 (4) : 431–444.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language contact | language maintenance | minority language | nationalism | opposition

Language as a subject

Amharic | Maale

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper suggests that regional nationalism, isomorphic with Ethiopian ethnic groups such as the Maale, corresponds to Paulston's model of ethnic nationalism and constitutes the reason of Maale language maintenance as a viable Ethiopian language despite centuries of political repression.