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Publication details [#52228]

Nyika, Nicholus. 2008. 'Our languages are equally important': struggles for the revitalisation of the minority languages in Zimbabwe. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 26 (4) : 457–470.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

education | language revival | mass media | minority language

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

Drawing on Fishman's language revitalisation efforts framework, this paper argues that in the current political and economic context, Zimbabwean minority language revitalisation strategies, targeting education and media, have yielded a significant amount of success.