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Publication details [#65114]
Spolsky, Bernard. 2018. Language policy in Portuguese colonies and successor states. Current Issues in Language Planning 19 (1) : 62–97.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Journal WWW
Annotation
The Portuguese empire imposed Portuguese supremacy. Postcolonial successor states retained Portuguese as instructional and governmental language and did not employ local languages, who were stigmatized and used by rural citizens.