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Publication details [#56791]

Barnes, Lawrie and Allistair McDuling. 2012. What is the future of Greek in South Africa? Language shift and maintenance in the Greek community of Johannesburg? Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 43 (2) : 166–183.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | language maintenance | language shift | sociolinguistics | youth

Language as a subject

English | Greek

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This sociolinguistic study examines language shift and maintenance in the Johannesburg Greek community, distinguishes factors that aid maintenance, and suggests the future may include a relatively solid Greek-English bilingualism, despite youth's shift to English.