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Publication details [#61537]

Posel, Dorrit and Jochen Zeller. 2016. Language shift or increased bilingualism in South Africa: evidence from census data. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 37 (4) : 357–370.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | language dominance | language policy | language shift | language use

Language as a subject

Afrikaans | English | Languages, Bantu, South African

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

Drawing on South African 1996, 2001 and 2011 Population Census data, this study argues that instead of a language shift to English, substituting Bantu languages as home languages, the examined period witnessed greater Bantu-English (/L2) bilingualism.