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Publication details [#53712]

Verschik, Anna. 2010. Ethnolect debate: evidence from Jewish Lithuanian. The International Journal of Multilingualism 7 (4) : 285–305.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | ethnolinguistics | immigrant | language variety | multilingualism

Language as a subject

Lithuanian | Lithuanian, Jewish | Russian | Yiddish

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This study discusses the concept of Jewish Lithuanian as a range of post-Yiddish varieties that don't constitute a transitional fase towards monolingualism: the speakers stay multilingual and continue code-switching between varieties of Lithuanian, Yiddish and Russian.