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Publication details [#60191]

Ó hIfearnáin, Tadhg. 2015. Sociolinguistic vitality of Manx after extreme language shift: authenticity without traditional native speakers. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2015 (231) : 45–62.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language maintenance | language revival | language shift | minority language | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

Manx

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper discusses how, thanks to language activists and enthusiasts across various generations, a new “speaker community” and important linguistic institutionalisation of the small indigenous Manx language, have ensued the loss of all of its “traditional native speakers”.