Publications
Publication details [#61447]
Perera, Nirukshi. 2016. Tamil in the temples – Language and religious maintenance beyond the first generation. Multilingua 35 (5) : 535–560.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
Do the distinct languages used in Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu temples in Australia, add to religious (and possibly linked home) Tamil language maintenance for second generation immigrants, detaching themselves from religion and shifting to English ?