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Publication details [#57585]

Jansen, Silke. 2013. Language maintenance and language loss in marginalized communities: the case of the bateyes in the Dominican Republic. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2013 (221) : 77–100.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

immigrant | language contact | language loss | language maintenance | language use

Language as a subject

Creole, Haitian | Spanish

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper discusses how in the marginalized Haiti immigrant communities of the bateyes in the Dominican Republic, Haitian Creole is still broadly spoken due to constant immigrant influx, not to intergenerational transmission, as there is a great impact of Spanish.