Publications

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

colonialism | language dominance | language of instruction | language policy | language use

Language as a subject

Portuguese

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

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.