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Publication details [#8315]
Samarin, William J. 1966. Self-annulling prestige factors among speakers of a creole language. In Bright, William O., ed. Sociolinguistics. Mouton. pp. 188–206. 
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
With reference to Sango, the creolized lingua franca of the Central African Republic, S. describes what happens to a language which has an important prestige function when many of its speakers realize that their mastery of it is incomplete.