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Publication details [#65609]

Brown, Joshua R. and Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter. 2018. Heritage Somali and Identity in Rural Wisconsin. Journal of language contact 11 (2) : 348–371.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

culture | identity negotiation | immigrant | language maintenance | language vitality

Language as a subject

English, American | Somali

Place, Publisher

Brill

Annotation

This paper explores the vitality of Somali as a heritage language in Barron, Wisconsin. It examines identity negotiation in the context of heritage Somali in the rural Upper Midwest.